Comment 27 for bug 107093

So, I have experienced a complete freeze again, even with speedstep disabled in bios (and powernowd disabled in ubuntu - although some kind of stepping still seems to be happening as I mentioned earlier). The only think disabling steedstep (esp. powernowd) did was delay the crash by an hour or two. i also experienced mini freezes, which ultimately culminated in a total system freeze. It may be helpful for you to know that at first, the freeze began with firefox and gaim freezing. I was able to force kill them through gnome, but i could not restart them -- the cursor would just rotate as if the system were busy. The only application I could (and had time in trying to) start was emacs. The system froze completely soon afterward. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace only produces a screen full of garbage.

I am fairly confident this is not a hardware flaw, since Windows (specifically WinXP x64) ran perfectly well. It seems a lot of people at least superficially are having similar problems. Is anyone working to try to resolve this? It's very serious, and likely to lead me away from Ubuntu as my desktop's OS and try another distribution to see if it's a Linux issue or an Ubuntu issue.

I will try using just Konqueror (bleh) from now on to see if Firefox is the culprit. I had this same problem with Edgy which is when I got my new hardware (new system).