Installing Linux on Inspiron 3451

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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  Processor Manufacturer Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz Clock Speed 2.2Ghz L2 Cache Size 1024  Memory 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  Network controller Adaptor Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) Adaptor Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) Adaptor Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) Adaptor Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)  Storage Drive C: Type 3 Drive Size 456.3GB Total Available Space 59.9GB Used Space 396.4GB  Hardware Type Description DVD/CD-ROM Drives Disk Drives TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050 Display Adapters Intel(R) HD Graphics 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 Generic PnP Monitor Sound Devices Intel(R) Display Audio Realtek High Definition Audio USB Controllers Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft)

ieee488 · Answer

Try updating the BIOS if there is a newer version.

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