Compaq F572US Locks Up with FC7

[Jim Duda]

FYI, I returned my laptop to HP, which then replaced my hard drive.
All of my problems have disappeared after the hard driver replacment.

jim


Jim Duda wrote:
> I have a Compaq F572US, with AMD Athlon Turin X86 with nvidia graphics 
> adapter.  I really like the laptop, however, it occasionally hits a hard 
> lock up and I have to reset and reboot.  The computer runs really slow 
> with Windows Vista, but works fine with Fedora :-)
> 
> I'm not sure how to tell if this is a software configuration problem or 
> I have purchased a lemon.
> 
> I'm running latest Fedora FC7 Moonshine, up-to-date.
> 
> My kernel boot options are noapic irqpoll noapci
> 
> Can anyone share experiences with Compaq F572US laptop computers?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim