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I'm not sure the of the model name, nor if that would help, but I believe it is this: Hp 2000 Notebook PC 2000-2b09wm.
For some reason it likes to freeze randomly. I tried using the proprietary graphics driver, but that didn't help, except for make the experience unbearable. I am using Ubuntu 13.04, as any earlier versions are worse, and this version can handle all my hardware perfectly (It's also extraordinarily stable).

The overall specs:

  • AMD E-300 1.3Ghz Dual Core APU
  • 4GB RAM
  • 64-bit system, 32-bit OS (This isn't the problem, or at least, not the only problem, as 64-bit works just as bad.)

This computer came with UEFI boot, but I disabled it in the BIOS Settings, and continued to change the hard drive from GPT to MS-DOS

I'm kind of a newbie, so please, if there is anything else you would like to know ask away.

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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! This question will probably be closed as a duplicate soon. If those answers don't fully address your question please edit it to include why and flag this for re-opening. Thanks! Apr 23, 2013 at 9:04
  • If the question is "how do I stop the freezes", then I'm afraid it's off-topic, because this is clearly a bug. You can report the bug to the developers if you want.
    – Flimm
    Apr 23, 2013 at 13:29

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The first things to analyze the problem is to look into the logfiles of the system. If you go to a terminal and enter dmesg, you will get the messages of the running session.

In the terminal look at the log files in the folder

ls /var/log 

where probably syslog will be most interesting for you. Try to figure out if there are messages just before the freeze - easily identified by the fact that any new session begins counting by 0 again. When you find some hint, post the corresponding lines and maybe someone can help.

The commands you want to use for reading the files are e.g.

tail -n 250 /var/log/syslog 

which returns the last 250 lines of syslog. Ore you can go through the files line by line with

less /var/log/syslog

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