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- Mon Mar 13, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Beginners guide to SSD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5966
Re: Beginners guide to SSD
Just to let you know, the SSD duly arrived, I popped it into the laptop, did a quick check that it would load linux LMDE of a USB stick which it did, partitioned it for NTFS for you know what which got loaded first and then shrunk to leave sufficient space for LMDE2 which is now running. No hitches ...
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:28 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Beginners guide to SSD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5966
Re: Beginners guide to SSD
I think I should be OK from what you say. Three four years max it's running an I7 chip. It's a Sony and the BIOS is not that configurable. I've got a Crucial BX200 coming which I understand is not the best available but hopefully will do for me Thanks for the help, I suspect I may be back for some m...
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:13 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Beginners guide to SSD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5966
Re: Beginners guide to SSD
Thank you 
Are these SSD drives detected by the BIOS when they're plugged in, or do they require some preparation before they will be read and recognized. I'm fine with partitioning etc but I've only done this on the standard HDD?

Are these SSD drives detected by the BIOS when they're plugged in, or do they require some preparation before they will be read and recognized. I'm fine with partitioning etc but I've only done this on the standard HDD?
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:10 am
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Beginners guide to SSD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5966
Beginners guide to SSD
This is really a request for assistance so apologies if this is the wrong place. Admin, please move it if you want to place it elsewhere. I'm considering buying an SSD to overcome some of my problems with a rather 'hot' running laptop. Is there a beginners' guide to installing LMDE on to an SSD. I'v...
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:06 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Suspend works but only to re-boot
- Replies: 0
- Views: 342
Suspend works but only to re-boot
My new to me laptop will suspend OK but, it will never recover to the page I was on. It will simply re-boot. Apart from being awkward, I'm worried that the rather abrupt re-boot is not exactly good for my system? Which program is responsible for administering the suspend and can I adjust it to instr...
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:21 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: HDMI problem
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1126
HDMI problem
Getting to grips with a new laptop sony VPCF11C5E if it helps. HDMI connection displays the screen but not the desktop icons OR if it does, no video apps will display UNLESS I select duplicate screen. Then it will display on both. Is this normal? I've noted that the video card is nvidia and I've dow...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 4:43 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Firefox thunderbird not responding
- Replies: 3
- Views: 550
Re: Firefox thunderbird not responding
Thanks.
Have followed instructions and everything still works, always a good sign, and I will have to wait to see whether or not the problem reoccurs.
Have followed instructions and everything still works, always a good sign, and I will have to wait to see whether or not the problem reoccurs.
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 8:47 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Firefox thunderbird not responding
- Replies: 3
- Views: 550
Firefox thunderbird not responding
I am getting an increasing number of instances where I go to open a browser (firefox) and I'm told there is another instance open which is not responding and the error message tells me I can either wait or restart to solve the problem. In practice I've found that restarting is the only solution. The...
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 2:54 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Suspend not Working [SOLVED]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4198
Re: Suspend not Working [solution found]
I too am having suspend problems. My laptop will suspend fine if I simply close the lid, which is fine, but for some reason when I press the power button it totally ignores it, even though I've set the power management system to suspend on pressing power button. This is not a major problem, but I wo...
- Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:44 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Accepting Flash Player update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1151
Re: Accepting Flash Player update
I cannot say anything about the BBC site, but if they should support html5 it does not make sense, if they ask you to update flash. If you disable the flash plugin in firefox completely (setting it to always ask is not sufficient) and restart firefox afterwards, the browser behaves, as if no flash ...
- Fri Jun 24, 2016 10:55 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Accepting Flash Player update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1151
Re: Accepting Flash Player update
try switching useragents to show that you have a Mac. That should convince the website to send HTML5 content instead of the obsolete Flash. Provided that the site supports html5, changing the user agent is not necessary (and probably not helping). All you have to do is disable the flash plugin in F...
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:25 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Accepting Flash Player update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1151
Re: Accepting Flash Player update
Sorry, mistake by me, the word 'android' should not be there. (I sometimes get other issues using flash in my android) This is using the standard firefox browser within LMDE 2. Channel 4 requests me to update the flash plugin and that's what I need guidance on. Is it possible to play channel 4 video...
- Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:00 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Accepting Flash Player update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1151
Accepting Flash Player update
Several sites I use request a flash player update, but I'm reluctant to do this as it will potentially mess up the existing system. The typical message I get is "To view this content you need to install or upgrade Adobe Flash Player" If a site like Channel 4 requires flash player update for it to pl...
- Sun May 01, 2016 9:45 am
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Channel 4 Player
- Replies: 4
- Views: 606
Re: Channel 4 Player
Thanks. 

- Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Channel 4 Player
- Replies: 4
- Views: 606
Channel 4 Player
This will only be of interest to UK viewers. I'm having difficulty, ie I can't, view channel 4 play back on demand. BBC iplayer and ITV hub are both fine, but for some reason, I'm assuming it's flash related, I can't get channel 4 to work. Any ideas? Has anybody else had/solved this problem? Cheers
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:32 am
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Hash sum mismatch error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 851
Re: Hash sum mismatch error
Changes made, I thought had worked, but then the following ..... Failed to fetch http://debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 5.153.231.4 80] Failed to fetch http://debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:09 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Hash sum mismatch error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 851
Re: Hash sum mismatch error
Agreed, although in my defence, it has been correctly copied from the Jessie-backports page! Somehow I seem to have copied one address without the extra http into the sources.list file (not sure if I just automatically corrected that) but the listing in update manager has the full, incorrect looking...
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 6:16 pm
- Forum: Newbie Questions
- Topic: Hash sum mismatch error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 851
Hash sum mismatch error
Hi, I frequently get the following error message from the Update Manager. **** error **** Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages Hash Sum mismatch **** end **** I know why I'm getting it in that I've included jessie-backports in my respositori...
- Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: Hardware Support
- Topic: Suspend not working [solved]
- Replies: 0
- Views: 500
Suspend not working [solved]
Having just had to reinstall I find that my power button will no longer put the laptop into suspend. What is odd is that if I set the power options to shut down, it will do this. But suspend, is just ignored. Is there anywhere I can look to try and sort this. update..... As this was a fairly recent ...
- Mon Dec 14, 2015 6:29 pm
- Forum: Software & Applications
- Topic: Kodi
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1171
Re: Kodi
That just happened to me too. The upgrade installed kodi-dmo 5:14.2 which installed the old version of Kodi. I reinstall Kodi via backports, and it once again was at 15.2. The next time I ran Mint update I marked kodi-dmo 5:14.2 to be ignored. Seems to be working now. Seems the system needs a good ...