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    Lenovo 3000 N100 - crash and reboot problem

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by labratgreg, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. labratgreg

    labratgreg Newbie

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    I'm having a problem I can't figure out. In either WinXP or Ubuntu Gutsy (live cd, not hdd install) anytime I try to run Firefox, the laptop crashes and reboots. No BSOD, no events in the system or application logs. Just restarts. (but it will run IE just fine in windows; I have also run a number of benchmark/burn-in programs and they don't make it crash).

    Similarly, if I try to do a hdd install of Ubuntu (or Puppy, or Slackware, Knoppix, or other Linux flavors I have tried), as soon as it gets to video setup it crashes and reboots.

    All I can figure is that it that somehow I have screwed something up with the video processor and it is causing it to crash? Maybe I need to replace the motherboard (ugh...$350 or so on Ebay right now...)? It has to be a hardware issue since it occurs independent of OS. Any thoughts or ideas on what tests I could do to try to narrow down the problem?
     
    labratgreg, Jul 19, 2008
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