December 29, 2012
Solved my SSD freezing issue (Intel 330 + MCP55)
I recently bought an SSD to upgrade my aging HP DV6227CL laptop. A few weeks after installing Ubuntu, I started experiencing occasional disk freezes during use that would require a hard reset as well as lock-ups during the boot process. When either of these things happened, the disk activity LED would stay lit indefinitely. When […]
October 10, 2012
Apply Nvidia overclock settings at startup on Linux
If you’ve tried experimented with Nvidia GPU overclocking on Linux using the nvidia-settings application, you’ll notice one pesky problem: the settings don’t stay set when you reboot. This is slightly annoying, and thankfully is easily fixed. Depending on your Linux distro, the settings can be applied at startup in one of a few ways. The […]