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faceyourfaces

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Registered: 2012-03-08

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Laptop Always Freezing

I've been using ArchBang for a week now and I'm really starting to love it. The only problem is my laptop heats up and freezes way too often.  In fact, the first time my laptop ever froze in the 15 months I've had it was during the ArchBang installation. I'm just wondering if there is any fix to this. I've tried CPU scaling with cpufreq (with it set to the ondemand governor it always goes down to 800MHz even though I set the limit higher) but my laptop still gets hot. I've noticed that before my laptop freezes it slows down and CPU usage gets really high. When I boot my laptop it always shows some PCI "address space collision" error. Can this be a problem with the graphics card drivers or the kernel? Thanks.

Laptop: HP Pavilion DV6z (2010 Model)
CPU: AMD Turion II P540 Dual-Core Processor
RAM: 6 GB
GPU: ATI Technologies Inc M880G (Mobility Radeon HD 4200)

Last edited by faceyourfaces (2012-03-08 15:46:50)

Mr Green

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Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: Laptop Always Freezing

Fire up htop see what processes are hogging the cpu, also if laptop has a fan make sure its running .... you do not want to damage it

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faceyourfaces

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Registered: 2012-03-08

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Re: Laptop Always Freezing

Fire up htop see what processes are hogging the cpu, also if laptop has a fan make sure its running .... you do not want to damage it

Overheating definitely seems to be the problem causing the freezes. The fans are running pretty loud all of the time and the temperature of my laptop right now is about 90 degrees Celsius. I'll look into cooling pads. I'm just wondering why my laptop only freezes on ArchBang. When I had Ubuntu it still got really hot but it never froze. Thanks anyway.

Last edited by faceyourfaces (2012-03-09 21:45:27)

mike4ca

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From: Iowa, USA

Registered: 2011-10-17

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Re: Laptop Always Freezing

I would vote that you look into what is making it work so hard.  I don't even start my laptop fan with IRC, streaming music, and running Windows under VirtualBox, and my computer is a few years old.

Does the fan also run when running on battery only?  I bought an aftermarket power supply for my laptop and noticed that when it is plugged in, the cpu duty goes really high and the fan kicks on.  I returned that power supply and now stick with the branded power supply.

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oliver

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Registered: 2010-11-04

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Re: Laptop Always Freezing

powertop is a great app too to see what can be tweaked

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faceyourfaces

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Registered: 2012-03-08

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Re: Laptop Always Freezing

I would vote that you look into what is making it work so hard.  I don't even start my laptop fan with IRC, streaming music, and running Windows under VirtualBox, and my computer is a few years old.

Does the fan also run when running on battery only?  I bought an aftermarket power supply for my laptop and noticed that when it is plugged in, the cpu duty goes really high and the fan kicks on.  I returned that power supply and now stick with the branded power supply.

The fan is almost always running whether it's plugged in or not. All it takes is five minutes of web browsing.

powertop is a great app too to see what can be tweaked

Powertop does seem like a pretty nice program. I'll check it out later today.

Kruppt

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From: Blue Ridge Mountains, NC

Registered: 2010-12-20

Posts: 299

Re: Laptop Always Freezing

Add below to your grub kernel stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst file and see what happens.

 
acpi_osi="Linux" pcie_aspm=force

Or patch the kernel with proper patch per your version from here: =-)
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/

faceyourfaces

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Registered: 2012-03-08

Posts: 4

Re: Laptop Always Freezing

Add below to your grub kernel stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst file and see what happens.

 
acpi_osi="Linux" pcie_aspm=force

Or patch the kernel with proper patch per your version from here: =-)
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/

This seems to be helping a bit. Or maybe it's just my mind tricking me. I'll have to test it out a little more.