Loki Random Freezing

Hey guys.

I've been experiencing some random freezing on my Acer R11 netbook. I haven't been able to find any pattern to it, it occurs sometimes after hours of use and sometimes after a couple of minutes.

I had windows installed on this before without any issues so I don't think it's a hardware problem. I've looked for anything weird being reported in dmesg and the syslog but everything looks normal.

I've tried a solution posted here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/761706/ubuntu-15-10-and-16-04-keep-freezing-randomly. But this has just resulted in sketchy booting. Sometimes it boots, other times it gets passed the POST but seems to freeze when trying to deal with grub.

Any ideas?

 

I had simiilar problems. I solved it like this -
try add this to grub:

Code (Text):

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_idle.max_cstate=1"

save= <ctrl>+<o>
exit= <cttrl>+<x>

EDIT: sorry didn't see you had tried this way (from the llink)

 

Yeah, any other ideas on where to look to fix this? I literally can't use the laptop reliably for long periods of time.

 

My last suggestion would be try upgrade the kernel to 4.10 and see if it helps.

 

I've given that a go. I'll run this for a couple of days and see how it goes. Thanks man.