Recently I installed full Ubuntu 15.10 in my HP 15 Notebook with Windows 8.1 (before), all was fine, but it began to fail, when I'm watching a video in youtube or only use the note writer, the screen freezes and I can't do anything.  I have to shut down from the switch, after the laptop turned on, the screen remains dark and can't do anything, I must return shut down the pc and switch on to make it work again.  My processor is Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU  N3540  @ 2.16GHz,my baseboard is a Hewlett-Packard,Product Name: 2213,Version: 57.51, and the video card is Intel, in the terminal says Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics &amp; Display.  Thank for your time community.
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My system freezes completely at random, frequent intervals. I started to have the same problem in Ubuntu 14.04 but after recent upgrade to 16.04 there is no improvement, in fact it seems worse.  When it happens, it's impossible to do anything. I've tried everything in this thread:  but nothing works, I have to hard reset. I have read all the system logs and journalctl but there is never any information that could help diagnose the problem.  This is a dual-boot system with Windows 10 and there's no problem there, so it's not defective hardware.  My laptop has an Intel Bay Trail processor (Pentium N3540)
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Any time I try to watch a flash (or maybe HTML5) video in chrome, when I fullscreen it, Ubuntu freezes, goes black, and then my monitor says "no signal." This only happens on the second or third time of using fullscreen, oddly enough. I can do it once with no issues. This has only been an issue since the update of Chrome 40 a few days ago. The problem does not exist in Chrome. I'm using Intel Haswell graphics, if that is important.
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I have installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on a new Alienware 13 machine. My problem is that shutdown/reboot/logout stopped working properly and the system freezes one I try to do shutdown. The problem started after I tried to suspend the system and it lead to a freeze too. After extensive searching I found that this freeze on shutdown only happens when the system is switched to Intel card (it shuts down fine when Nvidia is on). Does anybody know the fix for this?
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My 1yr old laptop, HP Pavilion 15 has it's CPU, Intel i5-8300H stuck at 0.78 GHz whenever it's plugged and charging, and the moment I remove the charger plug or switch it off, it increases suddenly and keep fluctuating freely, with good utilisation percentage more than 1-2GHz or more as I experience Thermal Throttling. I tried sneaking into the BIOS to see if I can do anything, but found nothing. I also downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) but couldn't control it. My question is how do I increase the speed to say atleast 2 GHz (fixed, not fluctuating) when it's charging, irrespective of getting thermal throttle, and also maybe even control the fan speed if it does get hot?
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I'm running an Ubuntu 16.04 (ext4) and Windows 10 (ntfs) dual boot environment which worked perfectly until I seemed to have crashed it by switching temporarily from UEFI Only to Legacy Only in my bios to run hard drive diagnostic tools from USB.  Now the initial splash screen has changed and the grub menu (version 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.7) shows up in much lower resolution (640x480) then before.   This is not really a problem for me, but when I choose to start Ubuntu this message pops up for a second:  error: Invalid video mode specification 'text'. Booting in blind mode   Then two more message lines are shown:  [1.895670][drm: intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder A [1.895696][drm: intel_pch_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* PCH transcoder A FIFO underrun   After this, the Ubuntu loading screen appears in high resolution, but exits in emergency mode where I can login as root user.  When I type in glxinfo in Terminal I get Error: unable to open display.  It all seems to me that there is an issue with loading the Intel grahpics driver in Ubuntu (Windows starts without problems).  Has anybody experienced a similar issue before or better can help me to get my Ubuntu booting again? I've searched through the forums, but couldn't find a helpful solution yet. Would be great!  Update @rod-smith (see answer below) helped me already with UEFI/CMS/Legacy settings and got me back to the previous splash screen and the grub menu in high resolution. However, the main problem: error: Invalid video mode specification 'text'. Booting in blind mode still persists and I end up in emergency mode. Any more suggestions how to handle this?  If it helps, I'm running a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon from 2013.  Update 2 When I run journalctl -xb in emgergency mode, some red messages show up. Within them the messages fsck failed with error code 4 and Failed to Start File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/..... Maybe this can help.  Update 3 The problem is solved. See my answer below.
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I recently made the switch to Ubuntu. Everything on my laptop works fine except my hybrid graphics card. It is Intel graphics combined with Nvidia GeForce GT650M. I tried Bumblebee, but primusrun doesn't work (segmentation fault, core dumped) and optirun works with glxspheres64, but steam games look worse with optirun than with Intel graphics (e.g. Surgeon Simulator 2013 runs fine with Intel and hangs a lot with optirun)   I tried Nvidia Prime, but it gives me a black screen on startup after install, so I can't do anything and have to power off my PC with the power button. I also tried nvidia-prime 0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04, and then I get 'low-graphics mode' and I can't get to Unity.
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I never had this problem until today. When I watch a youtube video everything is fine, until I make the video fullscreen. It actually continues to play perfectly when fullscreen, but when I then exit fullscreen my sidebar and topbar are gone, and the screen is just frozen. Also my cursor is gone. It does seem to respond to ALT-F4, but it takes about 15 seconds to even close the window, and after that everything is unusable (basically frozen). What's strange though, when I re-enter fullscreen after exiting (and unity being frozen) the video plays perfectly still.   For now my workaround is opening tty1 and executing pkill -u username which logs off the user. I have looked at /var/log/syslog but it seems to be empty.  Is this freezing a common problem, if not, how can I make steps to fix this?    EDIT with specs:  I'm on a simple Samsung laptop with:  Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit,  Intel® Core™ i5-3210M,  Intel® Ivybridge Mobile (So integrated intel hd graphics 4000),  8GB ram. I don't think i've ever changed my video drivers, but it's reported as i915.  Ubuntu is up to date, and my browser is Chrome 40.0.2214.91 (64-bit). (Will test out now with firefox, but already posting this because my pc might freeze again)     EDIT 2: It doesn't freeze on Firefox. Will try reinstalling chrome now... EDIT 3: Reinstalling chrome didn't help. Will try chrome 32-bit too now...
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2days ago I upgraded my Ubuntu from 17.04 to 17.10, all the process went fine and the upgrade was successful. But after some few hours I played a .mp4 video with vlc players the video plays on full screen for 3 to 4 seconds and freeze the screen, audio keep playing but the video stopped and the keyboard and mouse stops responding, the only way to get out of this is to force shutdown the computer and restart it. Happens every times with Ubuntu 17.10 never experience the problem with 17.04. How to get out of this am a vlc fan.
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I did a fresh complete install of Ubuntu 18.04 on my ASUS M32CD desktop.   Everything during install went fine. At the end it said it was complete complete, and would reboot. Popped the disc out. Rebooted itself back into bios so I changed it back from CD boot as primary to HD.  When it booted up for Ubuntu screen and then everything went black and can’t do anything now! Ugh. Help
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I have been trying to install Ubuntu on my new laptop:     Dell XPS 15 (9570)   Windows 10 Home 64bit English   8th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz, 6 cores)   16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2666MHz   256GB M.2 2280 PCIe Solid State Drive   NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5     I began by trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using an 8GB USB drive. The first issue I ran into was getting frozen on the bootup screen on the fourth dot. After a couple tries, I plugged in my monitor (through HDMI) and it stopped getting stuck all of a sudden.    Next, I tried to go through the installation and when I clicked on restart now, my computer froze and I had to shut it down manually and start it back up again. At this point I got to the login screen and logged in but after entering my password it got stuck on a purple screen with my mouse pointer (which was frozen). I was able to get into a shell at this point (with ctrl+alt+f4) and attempted to run sudo apt-get install nvidia-390 but this froze when it reached building initial module for 4.15.0-22-generic and upon reboot I had to run sudo dpkg --remove -a.    I was unable to work around this so I attempted to install Ubuntu 16.04 which I could only do by adding acpi=off to the boot configuration (which by the way, I had a lot of trouble getting to since GRUB usually flashed in and then immediately disappeared and only occasionally would it stick around long enough for me to use). But when I try to boot up now, I never reach the screen with the five dots and instead immediately get stuck on a purple screen (with no mouse pointer).  I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04 and am back to being stuck on the log-in screen.  What should I do?
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When I go to the downloads page to get Ubuntu, it automatically downloads the AMD version, but my computer has no hardware with AMD on it. I only have Intel and Nvidia. Also, when I install this AMD version on my computer, it works (other than the constant random freezing of the computer when I use Ubuntu). I don't really understand why the amd version works on a computer with an intel processor.
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I'm trying to install a newer version on a nettop (Acer Aspire Revo) that is running an older version. I have an external DVD drive that appears to be booting up ok, but when I get to the "Install Ubuntu" page, the display just goes off! The DVD drive still wizzes around for a bit and then nothing!  Any ideas?
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The latest updates (4/1/2018) make my laptop constantly crash the GUI/Unity:  (Intel Pentium su4100 processor)  syslog:  Jan  5 11:38:53 1810 kernel: [ 1850.327738] compiz[11911]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f6c7baf0c16 sp 00007ffd5ec71c60 error 4 in i965_dri.so[7f6c7b513000+82d000]   After login I end up with an empty desktop, just a wallpaper, GUI/Unity are in a crash loop:   No panel.  No dash.  Can't start a program. Launcher disappears. Sidebar disappears. System crash. Windows key not working. The key combination Alt+Tab not working.   Simply, the computer is not usable. Same for guest login. The only thing working: open up a terminal CTRL+ALT+T to examine log files.  I somehow forced  to let me log in and file the bug, but still lots of problems:   Dash not working Alt+Tab not working Sometimes windows all disappear for a few seconds     Any ideas for a solution or workaround?   UPDATE     If you have the same/ very similar problems, follow the link to my    report and mark there that you're affected too. Or file your own. Please leave a comment   if you wish, or upvote - this is a nasty problem - but an answer should   offer a fix or a workaround so users can use their computer again.    Without , Ubuntu can't fix issues.
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After the screen saver activates, or after I manually lock the screen via Ctrl+Alt+L, I see a blank black screen with just the date / time in the upper right corner. A few seconds after that, my HP flat screen monitor(s) lose the video signal and display ugly hopping "No Input Signal" boxes.  I'd like to keep the blank black screen (It's less distracting, consumes about as much power, and allows me to unlock faster, as the monitors don't have to re-sync), so Ubuntu should keep driving the video output while the screen is locked.  How can I configure this? I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with the Gnome Classic Fall-back. Graphics card is NVIDIA with the open source Nouveau driver, but I also see this with an external HP NL571AA USB graphics adapter.
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I'm trying to install Lubuntu on my laptop (sorta old 2005). [Laptop stats: Intel® Celeron® CPU 410 @ 1.46 GHz 1.47GHz, 448 MB of RAM]  I press Install and this message appears:   This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU.  Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.   What can I do to install Lubuntu on my computer?
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I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a Dell laptop with 1.7Ghz Pentium M and 1Gbyte memory.  Graphics are Intel® 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2, OS type is 32bit.  The whole system is VERY slow. When I launch the applications manager, for example, I need to wait in order to see the letters I typed appear!  It is as if the CPU was overloaded and no memory available, but I only have Firefox running.  How can I make the system run smoother? It used to have Windows XP installed and it worked fine.
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I've been having problems with a blue-screening Laptop (BCCode 124), and I've been trying to track down whats causing it. (It bluescreened randomly after 5-30 minutes of running in win7). It worked in safe mode. I tried reinstalling Windows, which didn't work, so I tried to install various Linux systems which also didn't work.  The only thing working right now is the parted magic version of the ultimate boot cd.(Its a repair linux distro that runs live from ram)  I had the idea to run a bunch of stability tests to try and isolate the faulty component(s), and I wanted some input on my results.  I did different cpu stresstests for different times. No problem (temerature ~60°C sometimes peaks at 65)  I ran memtest with no errors many times.  I also did a GPU check wich is included in the ultimate boot cd - parted magic distro - no problem.  I also checked the hard drive with different tools included in parted magic - no problem there too.  Every linux system I try to install crashes when I try to install it. (It either freezes with no error (rarely happens) or I get something like this shortly after I tell it to install (tried about 20 different distros): [*] 3 photos in the dropbox  Trying to isntall windows 7 just gives a generic "there was a problem" / "an error has occured" screen with no further information.  The laptop is a Lenovo B570. Here are the detailed system specs (the ram is a 4GB kingston now) [*] the hardinfo file in the dropbox  I have 3 crashdumps from Windows wich I can not open. (visual studio says it cant open old crashdump files) [*] 3 dumps in the dropbox  Can you help me to track down the cause?  Edit: im not allowed to post more than 2 links here so here the dropboxfolder with all the things I mentioned:  [*]