I am in the process of re-bricking a laptop for my 8 year old son. He wanted a computer, and I had this old Dell Inspiron 6000 with Windows XP, since I not new to Linux(Red Hat and Ubuntu user), I decided to try out Linux Mint since it has the beautiful Cinnamon desktop, and I heard good things about its stability. I have had a number of issues with some deep research across a couple of platforms, I have been able to solve on my own problems. I have one more to do, but I have a big one that I have no clue where to start. Ever since I have installed Linux Mint 18, the system has been intermittently but fully crashing. It would start with a screen freeze then the video would go with thin horizontal green lines. I first thought it was when I was working in an GUI program which supplied system services, such as menu configuration programs, or network manager, and the like. But, as time went on, crashes have happened with any type of lunched program. I have had the system crash as I was in a shutdown process. So, I am not sure what is causing the issue. Best guess it is a driver or kernel issue, but I am surely open for suggestions. I have supplied my system information below. Any thoughts?
Thank You In Advance,
Mike W.
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mike@mike-Inspiron-6000 ~ $ inxi -F
System: Host: mike-Inspiron-6000 Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic i686 (32 bit)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Inspiron 6000
Mobo: Dell model: 0W9260 Bios: Dell v: A09 date: 09/28/2005
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB
speed: 1496 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x800@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2
GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 17.2.8
Audio: Card Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-32-generic
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44
IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:12:3f:d0:d9:c7
Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
driver: ipw2200
IF: wlp3s3 state: up mac: 00:12:f0:75:28:bb
Drives: HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (7.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1200BEVE size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 108G used: 6.8G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.14GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 163 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 767.9/2004.0MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35