Question: I burnt a dvd from windows installation of 16.04 lts 64 bit. During boot, I disabled fastboot, secure boot and Intel speed step. I chose install ubuntu option, after about couple of minutes installation seems to hang, as progress animation stops. Any ideas? Just bought this laptop yesterday, I am totally stuck now. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Answer: 
Have you tried the i8kutils solution?

1) Install i8ktuils:

```
sudo apt-get install i8kutils

```

2) Add i8k line into `/etc/modules`:

```
sudo nano /etc/modules

```

and add a new line containing just:

```
i8k

```

3) Make sure the module is loaded at startup.

```
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf

```

and add a new line containing:

```
options i8k force=1

```

4) Reboot and run the following command:

```
sudo modprobe i8k force=1

```

5) Create a configuration file (There is none in a clean system. Please, mind that prior to 12.04 the file had no `.conf` extension and this «feature» may get changed back in any later release):

```
sudo nano /etc/i8kmon.conf

```

Enter the following lines:

```
# Run as daemon, override with --daemon option
set config(daemon) 0

# Automatic fan control, override with --auto option
set config(auto) 1

# Report status on stdout, override with --verbose option
set config(verbose) 1

# Status check timeout (seconds), override with --timeout option
set config(timeout) 1

# Temperature thresholds: {fan_speeds low_ac high_ac low_batt high_batt}
set config(0) {{-1 0} -1 55 -1 55}
set config(1) {{-1 1} 55 70 55 70}
set config(3) {{-1 2} 70 128 70 128}

# For computer with 2 fans, use a variant of this instead:
# Temperature thresholds: {fan_speeds low_ac high_ac low_batt high_batt}
# set config(0) {{-1 0} -1 52 -1 65}
# set config(1) {{-1 1} 41 66 55 75}
# set config(2) {{-1 1} 55 80 65 85}
# set config(3) {{-1 2} 70 128 75 128}

```

6) Make sure there is `/etc/default/i8kmon` file and that it contains a line reading ENABLED=1

7) Make sure there is `/etc/default/i8buttons` file and that it contains a line reading ENABLED=1

8) If all the previous steps did not help, the versions of the «tk8.X» and «tcl8.X» libraries installed may be too old. The following commands worked for me, but I remember the 8.5 versions were installed manually by me instead of 8.4 some time ago. Hence, there may be 8.4, not the 8.5 versions in your system still:

```
sudo apt-get remove tk8.5 tcl8.5
sudo apt-get install tk8.6 tcl8.6
sudo apt-get install i8kutils

```

9) You may have to repeat editing `/etc/default/i8buttons` (please, see clause 7).

10) Reboot
For me, It has been solved running the following:

```
sudo apt install smbios-utils
sudo smbios-thermal-ctl -v --set-thermal-mode=quiet

```