Aspire One lock-up issue

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Curtis Vaughan <cavaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone else has found a reason and fix for the following issue.
> I have an AAO ZG5 (or AOA150) with Ubuntu 9.04, ext3. I updated the BIOS
> to the latest version about a week ago.
>
> Every now again the computer will hang with the Cap Lock indicator
> blinking. At first it seemed to only happen when I tried to download
> torrents. So, I stopped downloading torrents.
> Now, however, it seems anytime that I do perhaps anything video related
> that it also hangs. So, yesterday I tried to watch something on Boxee
> (have been able to in the past) and it froze.
> Then this morning I tried to watch a YouTube video link and it froze.

Weird - my ZG5 has been a rock under Jaunty.  It's never kernel locked.
I've never updated the BIOS either.

Sounds like heat or video,

Brian