- Oct 10, 2006
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I dual-boot Windows XP and Linux Mint 12. When I turn it on, one of four things happens:
1. Instant reboot as soon as I select an operating system in GRUB
2. Choose to boot into Linux Mint 12, screen goes blank and it hangs until I hard-boot
3. Choose to boot into Linux Mint 12, everything's fine up until the login screen, where as soon as I start entering my password it reboots.
4. Normal bootup into either Linux or Windows via GRUB.
1 and 2 and 3 more often than 4, more than once I've had to turn my laptop off and on 6 times before getting a solid boot. But once I do get to a Desktop, there are no issues.
RAM is good per several full passes of memtest86
HDD is good per Western Digital's extended test
Re-flashed the BIOS to be sure, no effect.
Sounds like a hardware thing by nature, but if so why is everything perfectly stable once I reach a Desktop?
1. Instant reboot as soon as I select an operating system in GRUB
2. Choose to boot into Linux Mint 12, screen goes blank and it hangs until I hard-boot
3. Choose to boot into Linux Mint 12, everything's fine up until the login screen, where as soon as I start entering my password it reboots.
4. Normal bootup into either Linux or Windows via GRUB.
1 and 2 and 3 more often than 4, more than once I've had to turn my laptop off and on 6 times before getting a solid boot. But once I do get to a Desktop, there are no issues.
RAM is good per several full passes of memtest86
HDD is good per Western Digital's extended test
Re-flashed the BIOS to be sure, no effect.
Sounds like a hardware thing by nature, but if so why is everything perfectly stable once I reach a Desktop?
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