Laptop Freezing EVERYTIME

[Mark Phelps]

Boot menu doesn't stress the graphics much and there's almost nothing running at that time.

Try booting to a desktop and leaving it THERE to see if it still freezes -- without you actually using it.

Still think it could be the hard drive -- since launching ANY app requires reading from the drive, and running any video streaming app or any Web app will require LOTS of writing to the drive.

[JrMolten]

Hey GUYS!

I ran memtest86+...

*****Pass complete, no errors, press Esc to exit*****

Yey! So itz not the memory, i guess. Think thats good. Heard memory problems are relly nasty ****.

Soo, now im wondering how to do the SMART test. Got no idea ofo to do it. Hope U guys can help me...

Thanks All!!!!

[winh8r]

On Ubuntu 10.04 go to

System > Administration > Disk Utility

select your hard drive from the menu on the left hand side

then select "SMART Data" from the top right .

click on "run self test" and let it complete.

[matt_symes]

Hi

On Ubuntu 10.04 go to

System > Administration > Disk Utility

select your hard drive from the menu on the left hand side

then select "SMART Data" from the top right .

click on "run self test" and let it complete.

This is the test i would run next.

Just as an addendum to this excellent advice, i would suggest running an extended test.

Get a drink. It will take some time.

Kind regards

[JrMolten]

Yeah.

Test sad "nothin' to worry bout".

Keeps freezing, just the way it did before.

Now, something strange is that when i choose to ran a FULL test on the laptop, it freezed on screed sutuff. Got pinky and freezed. Anyways, i jumped that test an it went ok.

Thanks guys!

[matt_symes]

Hi

I don't understand this.

Now, something strange is that when i choose to ran a FULL test on the laptop, it freezed on screed sutuff. Got pinky and freezed.

How are you checking your CPU temps ?

Kind regards

[larsion]

As you said in the description. the laptop was 7 years old and currently running Ubuntu 11.xx. So i guess the problem occur because the GPU is too old. why don't you try to downgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 which has less graphic effect and see if that can help solving the problem

[matt_symes]

Hi

As you said in the description. the laptop was 7 years old and currently running Ubuntu 11.xx. So i guess the problem occur because the GPU is too old. why don't you try to downgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 which has less graphic effect and see if that can help solving the problem

But XP was also freezing.... That's the only thing that makes me think the issue may be something different.

I think it's a good idea to try a LiveCD/USB of Lubuntu or Xubuntu though.

Kind regards

[JrMolten]

Heh. Heh.

I actually did run sistem test instead of disk utility. Sorry guys. Like I sad, im really noobish on ubuntu. Running disk utility NOW.

Sooooo...

Another noobish question: How do i boot form "liveCD"?

Itz like, insert the disk and select TRY ubuntu or something like that? Plese tell how to do it, cuz i dun now.

Thanks All for the support!

[matt_symes]

Hi

Heh. Heh.

I actually did run sistem test instead of disk utility. Sorry guys. Like I sad, im really noobish on ubuntu. Running disk utility NOW.

Sooooo...

Another noobish question: How do i boot form "liveCD"?

Itz like, insert the disk and select TRY ubuntu or something like that? Plese tell how to do it, cuz i dun now.

Thanks All for the support!

You need to make sure the first boot device in the BIOS is your CD player and not your hard drive. You can do this from the 'boot order' section in the BIOS.....

.... or, most new computers will have a quick select boot option that, on my laptop at least, is selected by pressing F8 (and holding) just after switching the computer on. There you can select the CD as the boot device.

You need to select 'try Ubuntu' option and play around with that for a number of hours.

See if the machine still freezes.

Kind regards