- Feb 11, 2012
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Hi there,
yeah, basically the title says it all. I got an old Acer laptop with a Turion x2 ultra and 4 gigs of ram. It still works great, but it freezes after 5 mins of casting videos to the TV through my Chromecast key, both over wifi and ethernet (powerline).
The laptop hangs both under windows 10 and linux manjaro xfce, even after several os fresh installs, so I'm pretty sure it isn't software related.
I'm think it's hardware related, but, when I'm not streaming to the TV, it is smooth. No errors, no freezes. I thought it might be a hard drive problem, but it never happens while doing everyday tasks. Then I thought the wireless card might be causing this, but it happens on wired connection too, in fact, I can leave the laptop downloading for hours without a problem.
I even tried to game on it. No problem at all, except that it can't even keep up on crappy resolutions, but that's a story for another day...
Every time I'm forced to manually reboot.
the os and the google chrome browser are up-to-date.
any idea?
yeah, basically the title says it all. I got an old Acer laptop with a Turion x2 ultra and 4 gigs of ram. It still works great, but it freezes after 5 mins of casting videos to the TV through my Chromecast key, both over wifi and ethernet (powerline).
The laptop hangs both under windows 10 and linux manjaro xfce, even after several os fresh installs, so I'm pretty sure it isn't software related.
I'm think it's hardware related, but, when I'm not streaming to the TV, it is smooth. No errors, no freezes. I thought it might be a hard drive problem, but it never happens while doing everyday tasks. Then I thought the wireless card might be causing this, but it happens on wired connection too, in fact, I can leave the laptop downloading for hours without a problem.
I even tried to game on it. No problem at all, except that it can't even keep up on crappy resolutions, but that's a story for another day...
Every time I'm forced to manually reboot.
the os and the google chrome browser are up-to-date.
any idea?
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