Hi, I was given two (old) portable computers in which I installed FreeDOS.
After a few weeks experimenting with them and getting countless corrupted files, I concluded that processor overheating must be the reason. I suspected overheating after noticing that in the first few minutes after booting no errors appeared. So I removed a lid at the bottom of the machine and began to check the temperature by touching components with the fingers. Within just a few minutes the processor really gets very hot -- almost to the point of burning the fingers. This does not depend on work load: the computer may be doing nothing, and the processor is equally hot. I'm now experimenting with FDAPM and THROTTLE to reduce processor speed, with partial success. Corrupted files still appear, only in smaller quantities. Today, for different reasons, I temporarily reinstalled the original hard drive with Windows 98, and found -- to my amazement -- that under Windows the processor is completely cool, at least when the computer is not doing anything very demanding. You can hardly notice any heat at all. But if the machine is restarted in DOS (i.e., MS-DOS 7) it heats up just as much as with a FreeDOS-only hard drive. This is just the opposite of what I expected. I always thought that it is easier for a processor to run DOS than Windows. This sounds like bad news for me. I would like to know whether all portables are like that (the one I'm currently working on is a Compaq Armada E500), and whether anything can be done about it in order to work in FreeDOS without endangering the processor. Thanks, Marcos ------------------------------------------ Marcos Favero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
