Installation :: Mint Crash On Laptop - How To Fix It
Nov 22, 2010
I was using linux(mint) about 6 months without problem, then after a 2 months break i installed linux mint again, but everytime it crashed after a few hours(like 2-5 hours). So i tried to install linux mint debian but it crashed during installation, so tried openSuse and ubuntu but both the same result-everytime crash after a few hours.
(it crashes when browsing internet, writing in gedit,watching movie...just everytime it crash no matter what i do) Temperatures are ok, i checked RAM with memtest, also S.M.A.R.T but seems OK. I have dualboot with windows 7 and windows doesnt crash like this, it can run days without crash.
my laptop is ASUS n61-vn
when it crash i have to hold down power button, or alt+sysrq+reisub
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Jan 25, 2011
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ISO LINUX 3.36 2007-02-10 copyright 1994-2007 H Peter Arvin.
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-Computer-
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz
Memory : 765MB (254MB used)
Operating System: Linux Mint 10 Julia
User Name: oem (oem)
-Display-
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Quote:
~ > service --status-all
[ ? ] acpi-support
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What can I run to clean this up and get things to how they should be? Dont suggest re-installing - I have no time for that and it might crash at the same point.
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