Magic
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- Oct 11, 2012
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Hello,
I have an old Dell Studio here which currently has Windows 7 installed on it. No one uses it and it was just lying around so I decided to try and install Ubuntu on it. How ever when turning on the laptop and booting it into Windows 7 I found that it just turns off randomly around the log in screen. I thought it wouldn't really matter so I put Ubuntu on a flash drive, went into the BIOS boot menu and selected it. I got into the Ubuntu screen and the laptop turns off as well. I thought it could possibly be the hard-drive but I took it out and the same issue when trying to launch Ubuntu.
It can't be overheating since it's cool and I cleared all the dust out of it with compressed air.
Anyone know why it could be doing this?
Thanks in advance, it'd be pretty cool if I could get this thing running with Ubuntu
Update:
So I figured it could be an issue with the hard-drive. Since I could go into BIOS but not into windows. I took the hard drive completely out and launched it. Still the same issue. I put the hard-drive back in and scanned it, I forgot what the process was called. Now the laptop stayed on a lot longer. I thought it was fixed, so I went ahead and installed Ubuntu. I got into the progress nearly till completion when the fucking thing shut off again.
Now Windows 7 is gone and there is a fucked version of Ubuntu on it. When I try start it now I get in about 10 seconds on the Ubuntu load screen and than it turns off.
I am close to giving up and am not sure what to do. I also tried running a memtest and it just turns off. This was after installing Ubuntu since it gave me an option at the start.
I have an old Dell Studio here which currently has Windows 7 installed on it. No one uses it and it was just lying around so I decided to try and install Ubuntu on it. How ever when turning on the laptop and booting it into Windows 7 I found that it just turns off randomly around the log in screen. I thought it wouldn't really matter so I put Ubuntu on a flash drive, went into the BIOS boot menu and selected it. I got into the Ubuntu screen and the laptop turns off as well. I thought it could possibly be the hard-drive but I took it out and the same issue when trying to launch Ubuntu.
It can't be overheating since it's cool and I cleared all the dust out of it with compressed air.
Anyone know why it could be doing this?
Thanks in advance, it'd be pretty cool if I could get this thing running with Ubuntu
Update:
So I figured it could be an issue with the hard-drive. Since I could go into BIOS but not into windows. I took the hard drive completely out and launched it. Still the same issue. I put the hard-drive back in and scanned it, I forgot what the process was called. Now the laptop stayed on a lot longer. I thought it was fixed, so I went ahead and installed Ubuntu. I got into the progress nearly till completion when the fucking thing shut off again.
Now Windows 7 is gone and there is a fucked version of Ubuntu on it. When I try start it now I get in about 10 seconds on the Ubuntu load screen and than it turns off.
I am close to giving up and am not sure what to do. I also tried running a memtest and it just turns off. This was after installing Ubuntu since it gave me an option at the start.
