Success! I have Linux Mint running on my second old laptop. It works great. I am having fun exploring all the applications. Thanks to all of you, I didn't give up.
I want to thank all of you for your suggestions. I am giving up on the HP Pavillion and moving on to my second, but a newer laptop. This one is an HP EliteBook 693p. I have successfully started a "live session" from the thumb drive. After carefully studying the installation guide I plan to...
Last night I partly opened the laptop to see if it was dusty. I didn't see much of a problem, however, I was unable to get the rest of the cover off. That would be the cover over the fan. I will try again. I hope to find some instructions from HP.
I was finally able to transfer the ISO file to a...
Yes, it was overheating long before I tried to install Linux. I am ready to dump the computer. It won't boot off the DVD not. Thank you for trying to help.
I had the iso on a DVD. I tried to download the program I needed to put the iso on a thumb drive but the download failed. I have tried to start the computer without the DVD in and I have tried to reinstall from the DVD but nothing happens. I overwrote the Vista operating system so I don't know...
It's an HP Pavillion dv7-1273cl with a Nvidia graphics adaptor. I should probably mention that this computer overheats. At one point in the process to get Linux up and running I saw a message that the core temperature had exceeded the threshold. I expect that this could be part of the problem...
I have an old HP laptop with an Intel(r)Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @200GHz. There is 4 GB memory and a 64-bit operating system. I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 19.3 over a Windows Vista OS. The Linux operating system opened once after the install after a very long time. I haven't been able to...