[I deleted the beginning of this thread, jumping in later instead] On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:35:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0127 +0100]: > > > I read somewhere that pressing Fn + z should solve the problem, but > > > I've not had a chance to try it myself yet. > > > > This seems to work for me. Is there any documentation on this? > > > > I am going to call Dell tomorrow to find out... > > None of three "technicians" I spoke to at Dell ever heard of Fn+z ! > Speaks for the company, doesn't it? > > I think it causes the BIOS to reread the settings. I don't really know > what a BIOS has to do with a temperature sensor. Anyway, will upgrade > to A13 tonight. Maybe that's just going to fix it all...
When the temperature (allegedly) goes to 85 degrees, was it by any
chance 42 degrees before then?
85 = 1010101
42 = 0101010
which is almost too much to be a coincidence...
I see from another thread that you're also suffering from random lost
keystrokes - is this the same laptop?
If so, I would be inclined to run it:
- without i8kutils : because of Dell's refusal to provide useful info
to the i8k author - there is a small chance that this specific
version of the BIOS does not like the way i8k tickles it.
- without apm : buggy [DH]ell BIOS'es are not unheard of. My BIOS had
a bug where it would overcharge the battery, and thus kill it off
much sooner than necessary. I ended up upgrading the BIOS and
getting non-dell batteries in protest.
- or perhaps with ACPI instead of APM for a walk on the wild side...
and see whether this helps...
My money is on a buggy BIOS - it's a [dh]ell after all ...
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