Recent content by Brickwizard

my old Inspiron currently runs Mint-LMDE, Patrrot and MX-linux

From your screenshot of Ventoy, it appears you have successfully written mint 21 to the usb, to get it to install you must make sure you do not have windows quick-start or secure boot enabled, switch the machine off, put the usb in the slot, switch on whilst tickling the short boot key, if you...

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it won't hurt it, but I cannot guarantee it will solve all your problems, this problem has been going on with your particular machine since 2015

You can but LMDE may work better on the older kit having a totally dud battery doesn't help, without the levelling a working battery has any blip in your mains power supply could cause a freeze

Next time, press and hold the power button down for 30 seconds, release and re-start. The Celeron quad-core CPU was never as good as it looks on paper, and has been a problem since 2015, you could try Mint LMDE [its a little lighter than Mint 21] or even anti-x or MX-linux.

Welcome please install inxi then run from terminal inxi -Fnxxxz copy and paste back the results

Years since Used windows [I still have to repair the family members ones who wont change ], but with windows the command I use is with elevated authority [from this its only a few minutes to go through the workshop sheets for the full spec] wmic baseboard get Manufacturer, Model, Name...

@CaffeineAddict are you in the UK... if so you may also remember a range of computers made and sold by tiny computers from north-west England, you never knew what components they had in them until they went wrong [which was often] and you stripped one down, in the trade we referred to them...

OK a bit of history for you, when AMD came out with the first 64 bit processors they were backward compatible with 32 bit motherboards, It was not uncommon for entry level laptops/desktops to have a 64 bit core cpu in a 32 bit motherboards [I have delt with many over the years, mainly Asus...

that will not tell us if it has a 32 bit motherboard

if you want it plain and simple, follow my how do I install guide [link below this will work for 90% of machines] you may have to run a few short terminal codes to install some legacy drivers, its not hard if you follow instructions, I still suggest you use Mint LMDE as per my link earlier...

Have you told the computer to boot from usb using the short [one time] boot menu? https://linux-tips.us/how-do-i-boot-to-usb-or-cd-dvd-if-such-is-available/

As i said before, if you download LMDE from the link i have given you, write it as a bootable USB and try it, if your computer is 64 bit it will load 64 bit, if your computer is only 32bit, it will load as a 32 bit system. the only other thing to consider, if it is pre 2010 it may not be USB...

OK so if you have wind 8.1/10/11 have you disabled both windows quick-start [fast boot] and windows Secureboot is this a laptop up to 12 yrs old, if so whilst powered up save any work make sure both above are disabled, disconnect all power and other cables then press and hold the power button...