Hi everyone, I have just installed Slackware 11 on a friends computer, there was no problem installing, and it boots up fine, but after a couple of minutes it just freezes, I have no idea what the problem could be, but I know it isn't Slackware as it did the same thing when running Windows. Last night I started it up and left it on all night, when I woke up it was still working, but when I started doing things, it froze again instantly, when it freezes it leaves little coloured marks across the screen. I put the hard drive from my own computer in, and it happened again. I am reluctant to try my processor as I have no information at all about his motherboard. This is really annoying and I hope somebody can help me, it would be appreciated very much. Thanks, and bye.

Maybe faulty RAM. Try a LiveCD which has memtest86 or memtest86+ utility (see here for example).

Ok, i'll try that now,

Thanks uselpa

I tried memtest as you suggested, and after 10 passes, it returned no errors. Also, I tried using the memory from my own system, and the same thing happened again. Any other suggestions? I have no idea at all what this could be.

Thanks

Could be ACPI / APM problem. I'mnote sure which boot loader slack uses (grub or LILO), but see if you can pass the boot parameters "acpi=off apm=off"

Well, so far so good. The "acpi=off apm=off" seems to have done the trick. Cheers matthewg42, and cheers to uselpa too. I have compiled and installed a program, and it hasn't frozen yet. But I have to know, what exactly have the extra boot parameters done? Does this mean there is a hardware/software problem somewhere?

Once again, Thanks for the help in resolving this matter.

Glad it helped, it was a bit of a guess! These options turn off the power saving schemes APM and ACPI. You will probably find that you're not able to do things like suspend, CPU frequency scaling. There may be a kernel path for your particular hardware, but it would probably mean building and installing your own kernel to make use of it, which is often a pain to maintain.

OK, I dont think my friend would make use of those features anyway, so I guess it doesn't realy matter. anyway, thank you very much