Hi
I picked up my Umax laptop. It has been a traumatic 24 hours.
Hard drive was tiny so that needed replacing. It had very little RAM so that needed upgrading. Then the CD drive was on its last legs so I had to swap that out. Then it turns out it only displays at 800x600 despite being told it would display at 1024x768.
I had trouble installing Windows XP but that was down to the CD drive being old and my disc being scratched. The combo drive I had worked fine.
This morning I am trying to install Linux Mint 9 LXDE and I am not having much luck. The machine boots to CD every time no problems. Then most of the time it will sit on the 5 coloured dots screen for ages. Some times it will then go to a black screen with a mouse pointer.
I did get to the live desktop this morning and started the installer, but it hung on the partition creating section and I havent been able to get back to that process again. It is infuriating, I had no problems installing it on my 600E.
The combo drive spins up and down all the time. You can hear it accessing the disc sometimes, but then it will spin down and do nothing for ages, just the 5 coloured dots changing colour.
This is so annoying, any ideas. Is this laptop broken, am I doing something wrong.
Spec is: AMD K62 475Mhz, 256MB RAM, 15GB hard drive, combo drive.
Simon Royal
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