Here is the software configuration:
- All software versions are 'latest' (UP4)
LMDE installed initially in Virtualbox and transferred to a new SSD
Disks running dmcrypt -> LVM2 -> Ext4 (followed this: http://www.netzgewitter.com/2011/09/how ... ard-drive/)
Kernel: 3.2.0-2-amd64 (UP4)
DE: KDE 4.7 (UP4)
- Laptop: Thinkpad T530
CPU: i5-3210M 2.5GHz
Memory: 8GB (memory tested clean for 5 hours in memtest86)
Graphics: Intel 4K
Disk: HyperX 3K 120GB SSD (replaced HD with this myself)
- Turned off rapidstart in BIOS (saw it on a forum)
Change SATA from ACHI -> compatability (I swear this helped for a while, but now it is freezing again)
- put SSD image onto original HD (waiting for drive caddy to ship)
- Freezes seem somewhat random
Freezes are intermittent - sometimes not for hours, sometimes twice in a few minutes
They've never happened under heavy load (bonnie++ ran fine, handbrake ran fine)
They've never happened when I'm not using the laptop (never after sleep or hibernate - one time 3-4 min after hibernate resume, but only once)
They always seem to happen under light usage (tinkering in one program or another)
There is no correlation to any one specific app
Freezes have occurred in Cinnamon and KDE
It does not appear related to system temperature
It has only frozen when using the SSD and never running Live USB LMDE or Windows on HD (granted, I didn't use them nearly as long in that configuration either)
I can't 100% rule out bad hardware - I only ran Windows on the included hard drive for a very short time.