On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM Assaf Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > After installing Debian 13/Trixie on an older Intel desktop computer, I'm > experiencing complete freezes (even sysrq/magic does not respond). > This is reproducible and happens very quickly after boot, when going into > graphic mode, and causing any non-trivial graphic display (e.g. loading a > website, playing a movie with mplayer, etc.). > Blacklisting the "i915" driver in /etc/modprove.d/ and rebooting avoids the > freeze, but that's not a usable solution for me. > > I have not found a solution, and for now reverted to Debian 12 / Bookworm > which works flawlessly. > I'm posting this in hopes of perhaps learning of a workaround, or raising > awareness for a possible fix. > > Technical details below. > > ------------------------------- > > Hardware details: > This is an old Intel DH55 motherboard with i5-650 CPU (circa 2009). > It has been extremely reliable, never had any hardware issues, and has been > running various Debian versions for the last decade. > --------------------- > # dmidecode -t 2 > Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes > Base Board Information > Manufacturer: Intel Corporation > Product Name: DH55TC > ... > --------------------- > # dmidecode -t bios > Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes > BIOS Information > Vendor: Intel Corp. > Version: TCIBX10H.86A.0027.2009.1119.1517 > Release Date: 11/19/2009 > ...
You should update the BIOS, if possible. The BIOS is just another buggy program that needs updating on occasion. It looks like the latest BIOS is dated December 2011. See <https://web.archive.org/web/20191119132257/https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/20725/BIOS-Update-TCIBX10H-86A-?product=42409>. Jeff
