Hi! I am experiencing a very annoying problem with my HP NX9010 notebook: following the failure of the hard disk, I decided to refurbish it and upgraded it with a new hd and also replaced the original 256MB PC2700 CL 2.5 Hynix Sodimm with two brand new 512 MB Kingston ones (with the same clocking/cas latency). 1 GB ram is the maximum that this notebook can handle and here we are. I then re-installed "Etch" from scratch and this is when the problem began...
The notebook unpredictably completely freezes or suddenly powers itself down and then up again... on his own! At least once or twice a day, sometimes right after the boot/login, sometimes after hours. This is simply unacceptable. Somebody suggested me to pass the noapic and nolapic options to the kernel, but the weird behaviour doesn't stop. I've checked the ram several times with Memtest86+ and it seems to be working faultlessly. My setup is: latest Etch (I did a netinstall) with stock 2.6.12-10-686 kernel, standard Kde 3.4.3, "ati" X.org drivers (autodetected) and it is not running on battery. I must stress that before upgrading it, the previous installation of Etch never gave me problems (I was very much fond of it). Any hints? ACPI perhaps? Too much ram for a standard kernel? Bad (or not completely compatible) ram? Thank in advance to my saviours! ;-) -- Piero Piutti ----------------- Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA
