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I attempted to install 14.04.5 LTS yesterday on my laptop and as it got to the splash screen I was hopeful, however, the little orange dots froze on 3 and just stayed there. Eventually, my laptop shut itself off.

I tried Xubuntu and Lubuntu 14.04 to the same end.

I'm now working with Ubuntu 12.04.5 64bit and it's working well but obviously LTS is running out in a few months so I'd like to upgrade.

My system specs are as follows:

Asus X553M laptop 64 bit,
Intel Celeron N2840 @ 2.16ghz,
2 500Gb hard drives, one of which hosts Windows 10,
Intel HD Graphics (it doesn't specify which version),
8 gigs of RAM.

Unfortunately UEFI but I have secure boot and fast start up turned off and Launch CSM enabled.

I've used Win32diskimager, rufus and UUI to make the live USB.

Windows 10 runs smoothly so I can't understand why Ubuntu won't.

Kalle Richter
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Mikael Hirsz
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Your laptop is shutting off because it's overheating, and the BIOS shuts it down to protect the hardware.

Put your BIOS CSM/legacy boot setting back to UEFI, and then install Ubuntu 16.04 in UEFI mode, like Windows 10.

I prefer recommending a Ubuntu fresh install be done from a Ubuntu Live DVD, not a USB flash drive. It's much more reliable.

Cheers, Al

heynnema
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