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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Bruntlett, as per
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=499679&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=1093
an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available
(1.61). If you update to this following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.61

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514102

Title:
  Intermittent graphics corruption

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Every so often the screen would be corrupted with horizontal lines of
  junk.

  WORKAROUND: Add to /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX nomodeset:
  sudo update-grub
  reboot

  Now the system will only allow VGA 640x480 graphics.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-17.21-generic 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sat Nov  7 18:44:01 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-07 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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