Recent content by phw17

I bought the laptop new 6 years ago. So your suggestion sounds interesting. Its started me off on a whole new line of thinking. Thanks so much for that. I tested the disk with no obvious problems, but that's not conclusive. Buying a new HDD is possible but, of course another installation of...

I use 'Shutdown' from the main menu. The screen ends up blank except for the usual linux mint logo. The machine is then 'hung', no other options possible until I use the force restart via the power on/off key, holding it down for 4 secs. These symptoms are the same for v19 and v20. I have also...

on mint 19, on acer laptop, shutdown is not clean. eventually installed v20....same problem. help please.