Hello There,
I just thought I would mention something that I noticed recently. I have
a Intel based 64 bit P4 computer here that came with Win8. Some months
ago I installed Ubuntu v16.10 64b on it. The install completed without
any problems or issues. But I would randomly experience complete system lockups even with system sitting idle. In testing I found that Ubuntu
v15.10 seemed to run fine on the same PC. This time with v16.10 installed
I decided to upgrade the kernel to v4.5.0. Since the kernel upgrade I haven't noticed any lockups or other odd behavior. This is a spare PC
that I pretty much use for testing. I have three other PC's that all run Ubuntu v16.04 without any problems. They are all AMD 64 bit 8-10 core
based PC's.
A second thing that seems to have helped is that using Ubuntu with a Intel based PC I edited the Grub config file and changed the line:
From: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"
To: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash intel_idle.max_cstate=1"
Then updated GRUB and then rebooted.
So far the PC hasn't crashed or locked up once since the update. Fortunately, this isn't a critical PC so I can test different things out.
Jeff
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