Ubuntu Checking Battery State and Freezes

[rikdegraaff]

Hi All,

I've searched the forums and i found some threads about this issue, but nothing seems to help.

I just bought a secondhand Dell Optiplex GX60 Series.
I've installed a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.

Now comes the problem.
If the pc is on, and I use it for about 15-40 minutes, the it freezes up with the following screen:

"* Checking battery state [OK]"

Then there are flashing bars through the screen, and the message: "Checking Battery State [OK]" comes back.

This keeps flashing through the screen until I shut the PC down with the power button.

The specifications of my PC:

Processor : Pentium 4 -- 2.4 GHz.
RAM : 512 MB
Video Card: Intel Corporation 82845 G/GL [Brookdale G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

This is a Desktop PC, so there's no battery...

Sounds weird, huh?

I hope someone can help me, because on the Dutch Ubuntu Forums, they can help me now.

With Friendly Regards,

Rik de Graaff
Holland.

[slasherfilmmaniac]

I am having the same problem. My computer is a used Dell Dimension 4500s.

[MapleAwesome12]

The same. Unfortunately nobody seems to be replying. I've bumped my thread 4 times, hoping to get a reply. This seems to be common for old Intel chipsets and processors, as well as users with dual Nvidea-64 cards. Of course, users with Nvidea have it easy, since the newer systems are more supported nowadays... ACPI isn't available on these aged Dell machines. Why does Ubuntu assume you're on a laptop? Is the filename of the iso not meaning "desktop" like it should? I'm lost. I can't get support here, or on the IRC... I don't know anymore.

[MrFairladyz]

I also have this problem on my HP Pavillion 752n (also uses a P4 processor).

One thing I've noticed is this happened usually always when I'm using a lot of RAM (of the 512mb I have installed). A few programs will run then it will totally die and display the Checking Batter State screen...

We all have a Pentium 4 processor and an Intel 845 GL chipset.

EDIT: Also, this always happens whenever installing new software.

[sanjaydas7]

i just installed the 10.04 LTS desktop version and i get the same problem 15-20 mins after booting. can anyone help?!?

[MrFairladyz]

I installed Xubuntu 10.04, and that worked much better, but I got the same problem on the second day of use. No new developments so far... :/

[nutznboltz]

I am having the same problem. My computer is a used Dell Dimension 4500s.

I just got an unbootable DELL Dimension 4500S to work.

Can you please test and report if this works?

memory_corruption_check_size=128K

in the boot options.

The default is

memory_corruption_check_size=64K

but it seems that's not enough for some systems.

Thanks

If you don't know how to set BootOptions read

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Also this thread is very important to anyone looking at this bug

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L.../msg04621.html