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Post by scorp123 »

Very important to know: Did you test this with other Live CD's too? Do they also freeze your system?

Either you have defective RAM or a overheating CPU.

I think you may have a heat problem. My Compaq Evo N610c used to behave the same. The problem was that the Linux distros back then (2002 / 2003) when this laptop was sold did not yet fully support the ACPI BIOS that this stupid machine had. The consequence was that the internal CPU ventilator never activated and the machine overheated, causing the CPU to shutdown. Result: instant freeze or a very very surprising instant poweroff while I was sitting in front of the laptop ...

Can we try this? When you boot your Linux, hit F6 "Other Options" and then add these arguments to the kernel command line (before you boot your machine!):

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acpi=off apm=on no-hlt
Then boot into Linux and have some applications open, e.g. a screensaver? Just to give the CPU some workload. And then check if it's still freezing ...
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Post by scorp123 »

truevox wrote:Crud. It 'twas a nice idea, Scorp123, but sadly, even after amending the acpi=off apm=on nohlt to the end of the F6 selection, it still leaves me as frozen as can be ... Any other thoughts?
Hmmm ... did you run a memory test already? Might be defective RAM?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... f&t=340220
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... f&t=339918

Seems there are other Dell users too with problems:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... f&t=339237

Another idea could be to disable IO-APIC interrupt handling and see if that works ...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ght=noapic

Let's try this ... Press F6 on the boot screen and add these arguments:

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acpi=off apm=on no-hlt noapic
And remove the quiet and splash options ... let's see what the kernel spits out when it boots!
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brbubba

Re: Mint LiveCD Hangs after a few minutes...

Post by brbubba »

I had the exact same problem with my live CD. Tried booting in regular and safe graphics mode. Then went to F6 and removed "quiet" and it seemed to boot fine. Once I installed it to my hard drive the same thing happened. Once again I removed the "quiet" option and it booted fine.
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nixed242

Re: Mint LiveCD Hangs after a few minutes...

Post by nixed242 »

brbubba wrote:I had the exact same problem with my live CD. Tried booting in regular and safe graphics mode. Then went to F6 and removed "quiet" and it seemed to boot fine. Once I installed it to my hard drive the same thing happened. Once again I removed the "quiet" option and it booted fine.
Did you try disabling ACPI from your systems bios? I had the same exact problem. I couldn't figure it out at first. ACPI=off and noacpi were useless. It appears they don't override the Bios option on some computers. Live CD and my Linux Mint install haven't crashed since I disabled it.

I don't know which bios you have, but my ACPI option was under the power management section.
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