From: "Manuel Saavedra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However, last week I was working on my laptop when suddenly it just turned off. Any attempt to power-on again was futile. I had to take it to the Sony Repair Center. They just told me that my motherboard & processor are fried. > > There was no electrical over-current (and I was connected to a surge protector) and I had activated the ACPI support via the XandrOS control panel. > > The XandrOS Support Team told me that maybe I had a faulty fan and it burned out, taking my processor and motherboard with it. > > Now I’m not sure if something on the XandrOS caused it... and I having second thoughts about switching to Linux.
It's possible. I very much doubt the Xandros kernel is acpi-enabled, so there's possibly no fan control (some machines have hardware-controlled fans, others ACPI). If you tried this again you'd want to do two things - recompile your kernel with ACPI support and make darn sure that if the box got too hot to handle you shut it down! I wouldn't blame Xandros for this though - ACPI hasn't made it into the mainstream of 2.4 kernels yet, though it should be included in the 2.6 kernel.
