40.7 Amos Compaq Presaio CQ45
20220717
Amos is a 2012 Compaq Presario CQ45 laptop with a modest 6GB RAM, basic 300GB HDD, and an Intel CPU. It can handle light internet browsing and Zoom calls. It was refurbished with Ubuntu to bring life back into the computer having grown old and slow over the years with Windows 7.
| Spec | Details |
|---|---|
| Install Date | 2022-07-21 |
| Machine | Hewlett-Packard Presario CQ45 Notebook PC/1854, BIOS F.45 12/19/2013 |
| CPU | Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU B820 @ 1.70GHz x 2 threads |
| Performance | BogoMips = 3392.54 x 2 |
| Memory | 4GiB + 2GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns) |
| Disk | 320GB ST320LT020-9YG14 |
| Wireless | Ralink corp. wlo1 |
| Video | Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD (i915) |
| Audio | Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio |
| Boot | Grub2 |
| Kernel | 5.15.0-41-generic |
After powering up the machine press ESC for the BIOS and F9 to choose the boot menu. Proceed to boot from a USB thumb drive image of Ubuntu 22.04 and install, overwritting the Windows 7 installation on the hard disk. Follow the steps in Section 4.1.
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 20220730 | Install Ubuntu 22.04 from USB |
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