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Just finished installing fresh copy of Mint 9 to replace version 8 on my HP NX9005 Laptop all went smoothly.
Looking really polished great job guys

Ok I flashed the BIOS but this made no difference then I read your reply Breaker and thought I would give it a try and to my surprise it done the trick thanks for that :D I have used this laptop with the same settings for testing Linux Mint 4 and above as well as Ubuntu,PC Linux OS,Susie,Mandrake,Si...

I have now connected a PS2 Keyboard again this functions correctly when in the BIOS all keys work fine. Soon as I go into Grub 1.97 beta and try to select another option computer locks? Think it would be a good idea to select your boot manager at time of install I can not see an option to do this wh...

Hi
Yes Im sure keyboard works ok on laptop as I said it worked OK with Mint 7 I have tried adding 3rd party boot managers
and the keyboard works fine selecting different options under these.

I have just upgraded from Linux Mint 7 to Helena 8 on a HP 9005 Laptop dual boot with Windows XP Pro. Linux Mint 7 worked fine but now I find when I use the down arrow on keyboard to select another option to boot from the boot loader will just lock up and I have to power unit down? If I leave the op...