HP DV9000T hardware corrupted by Ubuntu (Linux)?

Hi guys, need to consult you all regarding this irritating hardware issue.

I am pretty new to Linux and tried installing Ubuntu on my 1 year old HP DV9000T laptop. Used it for about 3 days.. didn't like it and switched back to XP/Vista.
Since that day I have a major issue with audio/video in both XP and Vista so its not the OS problem. My audio/video hangs (1 sec stretched to almost 3 secs) at frequent random times. I tried to time it but its not consistent and keeps happening every other min. First I thought it could be a bad driver install or even a bad OS install. I am a frequent OS reinstaller and have installed XP/Vista on my laptop over a 100 times since it start date. I do a lot of testings for my company and in the end have an OS in a pretty bad shape so I just reinstall it.
I have tried both XP and Vista, but the problem still exists. I can't listen an mp3 song without hearing the "uhh uhh uhh" every other min. Same goes for video, every other min where the images just start to go in an ultra slow motion "kuhh kuhh luhhhh". It happens even on a totally clean reinstall with no audio video codecs loaded.
I treid to keep an eye on the CPU frquency switching from 981Mhz to 1.6Ghz. But its not the switch of frequency (and quiet frankly CPU throttling should result in hangs and should be totally transparent to the user).
I think my motherboard or sound card has gone bad?

 

install some codecs and drivers... see if it does the same thing

 

yeps it does the same .. with or without the codecs

 

I finally found the root cause. Its the Dell 1500 11n wireless card. If I remove it or just disable the card in device manager, the system works normal again.

This wasn't happening before as I have used it for over 7 months and never had an issue. Even tried different Dell drivers but that does not seem to help.

Could it be that Linux killed it?

 

kewlguy,

A program you might want to look into for testing so you don't have to keep reinstalling because you are doing testing all the time is VMware. VMware is a program that allows you to run virtual machines inside of your OS. With VMware you can install pretty much every OS there is out there, and is great for testing. You can go to www.vmware.com and download a trial, once you try it I'm sure you'll love it, especially because of all the testing you do. If you have questions about it or need help let me know.

 

yeah I am well versed with vmware. The problem is that the applications I test are corporate specific and do not support vmware and will never be.

 

It might be just co-incident happened with your wireless card (hard to believe that at the same time, or almost at the same time). Try to replace it to compare.