somewhat OT: problem with laptop and linux

[Willem van der Walt]

You can try to run the memtest which I think is an option on ubuntu live 
cds.
Borrow some eyes when you do that.
If you do a propper ram test, the ram is cleared in the process.  
If i am wrong in the availability of the memtest on the cd, I have a 
staticly linked memory testing program somewhere.  The problem sounds like 
hardware.  It is not easy to take all power from a laptop, so you can try 
the second-best things, like trying to get into the bios and reset to 
factory settings, save and reboot.  Over-write the ram with a memory 
tester etc.
Good luck.
Willem


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Rynhardt P Kruger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem.
> I have an acer travelmate 4062LCi laptop that was running ubuntu
> 8.04 until recently.
> A few days ago, I turned on the laptop that was on hibernate and after
> it asked me my password, it just didn't say any thing more. 	
> I pressed some keys, but because I haven't installed my custom speakup
> kernel yet, I couldn't get any more output.
> When I held in the power button to turn it off, I hered for a second
> orca saying something and then the laptop died.
> When I booted again, it just hanged at some point and when I got someone
> with eyes to the laptop, they told me that it is showing a blank screen
> with a blinking cursor in the bottom right corner.
> I tried to run Ubuntu from the live CD, but it gave the same blank
> screen. I tried running grml1.1 live, but it stopped at the stage where
> it searches for the grml file. With both Cd's, the CD just stops and
> spin down, and you are Abel to take it out of the drive. Do you think it
> is a hardware or a software problem?
> I think that it may be something stuck in the ram, it happened someday
> with my desktop PC, but I don't want to open my laptop, it is so
> different from a desktop PC.
> If I could just remove the ram and put it back again...
> 
> Thanks for any help ahead of time.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Rynhardt
> 	
> 
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