I don’t get any google hits on Samsung NP300E5X-S01 motherboard failures. I am curious, do you have a compatible power supply unhand? Might want to try another one of those. I am also nervous about two laptops exactly alike having failed motherboards. As they say in the military, once is a coincidence. Twice is enemy action! I’m thinking bad power and supplies that do not detect power events.
Bob On Mar 17, 2014, at 13:24 , Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/03/14 22:17, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> The palmtop should have a heat sensor that prevents the very thing you are >> experiencing. If an Intel processor overheats it will shut the computer off. >> Are you running Linux on these? It may be that Linux prevents the automatic >> shutdown of the OS. > > This is a Samsung NP300E5X-S01 > > and it was running Windows 7 ultimate. > > Richmond. > >> Bob >> >> >> On Mar 17, 2014, at 10:41 , Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 17/03/14 17:26, Bob Sneidar wrote: >>>> I think it really comes down to the quality of the laptop components, as >>>> the prior post suggested, and particularly the display. Everything else in >>>> the laptop is not that expensive, but the display might be a higher >>>> quality. If it is just a stock LCD nothing fancy, then consider another >>>> laptop. BTW it is quite odd for a motherboard to “fry” (barring abuse) in >>>> a laptop. Power surges are usually handled fairly well by the external >>>> power supplies. Laptop power supplies can afford to drop output power >>>> because they run on batteries. I would definitely see if others with this >>>> same model are having issues. Might be a lemon. >>>> >>>> Bob >>>> >>>> >>> Luckily I went over to my accountant who dug out the documents from when I >>> purchased the laptop and it >>> turns out to be guaranteed for 2 years; and I bought it 18 months ago. >>> >>> And, even more to the point, the company I bought it from have agreed to >>> honour the guarantee >>> [this being a rare phenomenon in Bulgaria], and have undertaken to repair >>> it and have it up and running within 15 days. >>> >>> It might be a lemon, but my son did have it sitting on a desk for 7 hours, >>> with no cooler pad underneath it, >>> and was working on heavy stuff (Sibelius 7), running Windows 7; so the >>> blasted thing overheated and the motherboard became >>> a great-grandmother rather sooner than planned. >>> >>> If I can have it running Xubuntu, with a cooling pad, that will do. >>> >>> "Daddy" has already had to fork out for a replacement, so, at least, he >>> deserves his son's cast-offs . . . LOL >>> >>> ----------------------- >>> >>> Interestingly enough, "the girlfriend" has a much more expensive laptop, >>> also running Windows 7, which went >>> the same way after a year. Again; silly girl didn't have a cooler pad; she, >>> also, unfortunately got some pretty nasty >>> burns on her legs. >>> >>> Richmond. >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
