<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>But I did eventually get Ubuntu installed; it's running off the hard disk and it's still randomly, and frequently, freezing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wade Smart" <wadesmart@gmail.com> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:58:22 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: BIOS settings for Thinkpads using Ubuntu techlists@comcast.net wrote: > I just recently bought a refurbished Thinkpad T41 laptop off the IBM > website and intended to configure it for XP/Ubuntu dual boot. The > laptop worked fine and ran stable with anything related to Windows (XP > and I also tried Vista), but had frequent random freezes with anything > related to Linux (the Ubuntu install CD and a Helix live CD). > > I did eventually get Ubuntu installed with the install CD but it still > keeps freezing up at random moments; it does not seem to freeze up at > anything specific. > > I let memtest run all night to check for faulty memory (no errors), and > ran through all the IBM PC Doctor hardware tests (under XP) to see if > there were hardware errors with anything (again, no errors). > > I've had a great experience in the past with some older Thinkpads under > similar setups (dual boot Windows/Linux) so this is kind of puzzling. I > don't think there's any faulty hardware involved because of the hardware > tests run, and the fact that everything works fine under Windows (unless > there's some weird problem that slips under the radar on these > diagnostic programs).. > > So I'm wondering if there's some BIOS settings that need to be tweaked > to make things work more smoothly under Linux. On older BIOSs there used > to be a setting for non-Windows OSs, but this Thinkpad BIOS didn't have > such an option (that I could find anyway). > > Anyone have a suggestion? I've got 7 days to return for a refund if I > can't resolve it, so there's still another few days to troubleshoot the > problem. > > Paul > 20090131 1557 GMT-5 Paul i have a R50e and had the same trouble at first. It was the cd I burned. It worked fine on other machines but not that laptop. I finally just went to the alt install cd and it worked. Wade </div></body></html>