NO, I wish. this is my old Compaq 2150US has an Athlon XP and 512mb ram


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Ok. Back when I had my IBM A22M. Which also had 512 MB of ram with a celeron 1000HZ processor.
I needed to as acpi=force to the end of my kernel line to completely shutdown.
But that was back when we used grub legacy instead of grub 2.

Edit: searching and reading up on your laptop. You can run 1gig of ram in it for better performance.

Standard Memory

256 MB
Maximum Memory 1.0 GB
Memory Slots 2 sockets

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I see some models came with intel celeron and I guess some came with amd cpus.

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I'd wait to see what Jerry or Anti may have to say about this first or maybe some other member.

I will try acpi=force when I get home, I think I had to do this with another distro.

can I add acpi=force to grubs config using the grub repair tool?

You should be able to do so: general settings tab, kernel parameters section, place it after"quiet" and save.

thanks!