plotor2
April 20th, 2016, 07:25 AM
Hello. I have a couple of questions about a variety of issues I'm facing with my new laptop. I know this sort of scatter shot approach to a thread isn't particularly recommended, but I'm baffled by some of them, and I thought I'd share all of them in case readers have any insight into one or more of them. First up, the laptop: It's a MSI GS60 Ghost Pro-002. with a Core i7 (6700HQ 2.60 GHz) and an Nvidia Geforce GTX 970M, 128GB SSD and 1TB HD. Came installed with Windows 10 obviously, and for the sake of trying, I figured I would dual boot this machine instead of wiping Win10 off completely. So I got last nights build of the amd64 install of 16.04 and got it installed to a USB drive. Here's where the fun starts.
1) Live Installation: Separate thread created: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321090&p=13473075#post13473075
2) GRUB: Separate thread created: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321091&p=13473078#post13473078
3) Shutdown: Ubuntu refuses to shutdown cleanly. Constantly see a tail of NMI watchdog reports about CPU #0 or #2 being stalled for 22/23 seconds. Kind of troubling, I Googled a bit on this one and couldn't find much. I end up holding the power button down to force it off. Less than ideal.
Does anyone have any thoughts about all of this? Things I should have tried, or should try if I factory reset the machine and try again? (which I'm sorely tempted to do.) Would love to know what people think. Thanks very much for reading this and for any help you can provide.
1) Live Installation: Separate thread created: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321090&p=13473075#post13473075
2) GRUB: Separate thread created: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321091&p=13473078#post13473078
3) Shutdown: Ubuntu refuses to shutdown cleanly. Constantly see a tail of NMI watchdog reports about CPU #0 or #2 being stalled for 22/23 seconds. Kind of troubling, I Googled a bit on this one and couldn't find much. I end up holding the power button down to force it off. Less than ideal.
Does anyone have any thoughts about all of this? Things I should have tried, or should try if I factory reset the machine and try again? (which I'm sorely tempted to do.) Would love to know what people think. Thanks very much for reading this and for any help you can provide.