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  1. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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.
  2. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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...
  3. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    Thank you! That is very helpful.
  4. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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...
  5. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    Thanks for the suggestion! I will try that. I have set the BIOS to run the fan continually.
  6. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    Should I try a different distribution of Linux?
  7. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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.
  8. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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...
  9. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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...
  10. Mary Stowell

    Very slow startup with new installation of Linux Mint with Cinnamon

    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...
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