This is an older fourth generation Intel that now has Windows 10 Home, and 4 GB RAM.
I used Ubuntu 16 and 17 live. I have also installed both. Ubuntu will not shut down. I did completely reformat drive. I tried several different options of hard drive format. Finally trying the most basic one main partition,and no encryption.
I thought at one time this laptop came with either Linux or Windows 10, but I do not see the download for Linux on my support page. Maybe because I did not buy it. However I would not want to run Linux unless it had the later updates.
I have perused the Ubuntu forums, and saw suggestions for a fix of to make shutdown finish that are for earlier versions of Ubuntu, and none of those suggestions worked. I also do not know how to get behind that closing Ubuntu splash screen. I am now frustrated enough that I would try to not use Ubuntu, which may never work properly.
I wanted to try QUBES, but the install will not even start. However that was always not likely for this limited of hardware.
Anyone here want to suggest a version of Linux that I can install on hard drive? (I have tried several, guessing some do not have the correct video driver.)
Computer Model |
Inspiron 3451 |
BIOS Vendor |
Dell Inc. |
BIOS Version |
A00 |
BIOS Date |
12/5/2014 |
OS Version |
Microsoft Windows 10 Home |
Manufacturer |
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz |
Clock Speed |
2.2Ghz |
L2 Cache Size |
1024 |
Available Memory |
38.89 % |
Page File Size |
4,682.9MB |
Available Page File |
100.00 % |
Virtual Memory |
4,682.9MB |
Available Virtual Memory |
45.02 % |
DIMM_A |
4,096.0MB |
Adaptor |
Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) |
Adaptor |
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) |
Adaptor |
Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) |
Adaptor |
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) |
Drive |
C: |
Type |
3 |
Drive Size |
456.3GB |
Total Available Space |
59.9GB |
Used Space |
396.4GB |
Type |
Description |
DVD/CD-ROM Drives |
|
Disk Drives |
|
Display Adapters |
|
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers |
Intel(R) Pentium(R) processor N- and J-series / Intel(R) Celeron(R) processor N- and J-series AHCI - 0F23 |
|
Keyboards,Mice & Pointing Devices |
Dell Touchpad |
PS/2 Compatible Mouse |
|
Monitors |
|
Sound Devices |
Intel(R) Display Audio |
Realtek High Definition Audio |
|
USB Controllers |
Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft) |
|
ieee488
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November 19th, 2017 16:00
Try updating the BIOS if there is a newer version.