Comment 33 for bug 172937

Hi,
I am trying to make that laptop computer work again, I hope this is the right place to post. I run windows, and it says that the partition cannot be recognized. I run the ubuntu installation with the acpi=off option, but the installation stops at 5%. But I can confirm that acpi=off helps, at least it goes on with the installation. A memtest86+ cannot be completed, the computer at a certain point goes off. It sounds to me that the hard disk is corrupted.
Question: I can buy a new hard disk, but how can I check that the memory modules (I have an additional external 1GB ram) are ok?
thanks