Anyone else using a Lenovo W530 laptop and solved boot issues?

Support & Help Requests Hardware
#1

I have been running Linux Mint MATE, and with every update things get worse - lock ups on boot, black screens, wandering tool bar items, etc.

I’m using legacy boot and Nvidia binary drivers on Mint 17.2 with the MATE desktop.

I’m getting a bit desperate, and I’m hoping someone has some suggestions.

Here’s the current system report:

# inxi -Frx
System:    Host: w530 Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) 
           Desktop: MATE 1.10.0  Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 2447CN4 version: ThinkPad W530 serial: xxxxC 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 2447CN4 serial: xxxxP Bios: LENOVO version: G5ET65WW (2.07 ) date: 11/21/2012
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-3720QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 20752 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2173.640 MHz 2: 1295.937 MHz 3: 1255.109 MHz 4: 1395.265 MHz 5: 1200.367 MHz 6: 1255.718 MHz 7: 2167.648 MHz 8: 1410.804 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1000M] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.org: 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau) tty size: 198x49 Advanced Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           Card-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e ver: 2.3.2-k port: 6040 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 3c:97:xxxxx
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi ver: in-tree: bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 84:3a:xxxx
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1240.3GB (86.9% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Patriot_Blaze_SS size: 240.1GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: ST1000LM024_HN size: 1000.2GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 207G used: 173G (89%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 15.06GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:50C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2944 
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2 main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com rafaela main upstream import
           deb http://extra.linuxmint.com rafaela main
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner
Info:      Processes: 248 Uptime: 14:05 Memory: 1872.6/15687.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17
#2

Ummm, this is awkward :confused:

You probably need to ask this question over at the Linux Mint community. This is the community for Ubuntu MATE, and I have no experience with Mint and can’t comment on the issues you’ve experienced or how to resolve them. Sorry :expressionless:

#3

I’m asking here in the hopes that someone running Ubuntu-MATE has conquered the same issues with Ubuntu-MATE, and I can switch and things will work.

#4

Hi,

sounds to me like you may have burnt your ISO too fast to the disk or didn’t pre-format your USB stick?.

#5