Hello There,   
   > I just thought I would mention something that I noticed recently. I have   
   > a Intel based 64 bit P4 computer here that came with Win8. Some months   
   > ago I installed Ubuntu v16.10 64b on it. The install completed without   
   > any problems or issues. But I would randomly experience complete system   
   > lockups even with system sitting idle. In testing I found that Ubuntu   
   > v15.10 seemed to run fine on the same PC. This time with v16.10 installed   
   > I decided to upgrade the kernel to v4.5.0. Since the kernel upgrade I    
   > haven't noticed any lockups or other odd behavior. This is a spare PC    
   > that I pretty much use for testing. I have three other PC's that all run   
   > Ubuntu v16.04 without any problems. They are all AMD 64 bit 8-10 core    
   > based PC's.   
      
   A second thing that seems to have helped is that using Ubuntu with a Intel   
   based PC I edited the Grub config file and changed the line:   
      
   From: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash"   
      
   To: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash intel_idle.max_cstate=1"   
      
   Then updated GRUB and then rebooted.   
      
   So far the PC hasn't crashed or locked up once since the update. Fortunately,   
   this isn't a critical PC so I can test different things out.   
      
      
   Jeff   
      
      
      
      
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