Laptop locks up

[Victor Padro]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net>wrote:

> On Tuesday 03-10-2009 13:29:57 Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > I have a friend that is running 8.04 on a Dell Precision M2300. He tried
> > using 8.10 on it, but said that it would lock up tight at random time
> > intervals. He said the logs were empty of errors from the time of the
> > freezes, pointer locked, keyboard, etc...nothing responded. Not even
> > connecting remotely from another system into the laptop would work, so
> > even the network stack stopped responding.
> >
> > He reverted to 8.04 and said it's okay with him because it works fine
> > for his needs, but did anyone else run into behavior like this in moving
> > 8.04 to 8.10?
> >
> > -Bart
>
> I had the same problem with 8.04 before I got a new laptop - which I run
> 8.10
> on. It is a hardware problem. First thing to do is run a memory test
> overnight. Then make sure the CPU and motherboard are not covered in dust.
>
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Some Dell models need the BIOS to be upgraded before using Ubuntu x.x
Well that happened to me using Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 on a XPS 1330m, USB
mouse and trackpad not responding, slow internet, etc.
I upgraded to the v. A12 if I remember correctly and the lock down dissapear
in both Ubuntu versions.


Hope it helps.

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