Comment 337 for bug 204996

I've been running 8.04 in Virtual Box in a Windows XP host on a Toshiba Laptop with an Intel Celeron M and Atheros wifi for 8 or 9 months now and it worked great, (except Vbox has no support for 3D acceleration).
My hard drive broke and I installed a new one and decided to to dual boot which worked fine. I use a dial up at home, this caused me some confusion and

I finally got it working with sl-modem-daemon (after trying SLMODEMD), but shortly therafter I experienced my first crash, just a loud noise from the hard drive then all power off. I went to a wifi spot to download all the updates before trouble shooting, this was a major hassle, finally I got a connection but was forced to leave before finishing the updates. I returned began updating again had to stop for awhile and when I tryed to reconnect I experienced the sudden crash again when I rebooted the wireless and ethernet drivers where gone (no wireless in the network manager and no drivers listed in hardware drivers) then another crash.

Now ubuntu will only run for about a minute before a hard crash (not much time to do anything), I decided to reinstall ubuntu in the same partition but when I boot up with the CD by the time I make it to the install dialoque there's a hard crash.

EVERY TIME before a crash when plugged in to AC power, the charge light turns to amber (indicating battery charging), the screen freezes, hard drive makes a loud noise, everything shuts completely off, and then the charge light turns back to green (indicating full charge on AC power).

This is depressing, never had a problem in Vbox maybe those guys at Sun have something going. Am I going to have to wait for the 8.10 disc to arrive? I really like Ubuntu, Windows sucks, help!