Laptop unable to survive LinX

[dguy6789]

Hello.

My laptop is an Acer Extensa 4420

Turion 64 X2 TK 57 1.9Ghz
2GB of RAM
Radeon X1250
etc...

It came with Vista but I put XP on it recently. In my quest to find the optimum battery settings, I decided to see just how low of voltage I could run it at and still pass LinX.

As it turns out, the laptop is unable to pass it at completely stock settings. After some time(5-20 minutes usually) the screen will turn black and the whole computer will be frozen. A hard reboot is required. Sometimes that doesn't happen and LinX just says it detected an error. This is with the processor at the stock 1.9Ghz and the stock voltage of 1.075.

I also tried running LinX with the processor in its low power mode, which is 800Mhz and 0.900 volts. The same thing happens.

The machine's temperatures are all very cool, with it getting no higher than 60C at 1.9Ghz and no higher than 40C at 800Mhz. It still crashes with LinX. Prime 95 will crash too, but not as quickly.

Any ideas?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Are you sure you have the correct drivers install for the laptop. Linux can get tricky since not all hardware is supported. May be hard to find compatible drivers at times.

 

[coxmaster]

OP, i have no idea what would cause that..

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
Are you sure you have the correct drivers install for the laptop. Linux can get tricky since not all hardware is supported. May be hard to find compatible drivers at times.

I can however point out a flaw with this. He never said anything about Linux. He actually specifically said XP. LinX is a stress program (like Prime95). Linx !=Linux

 

[dguy6789]

The laptop has never crashed on me in regular use yet, but it is troubling to know that if I run both cores at 100% load it will eventually crash. I'm pretty sure I'm out of warranty and such as well.