Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
I have been running Windows 2008 Server on my laptop for the past 120
days. Last night it finally gave me a "register or die" message, and
I was going to give Ubuntu a shot as my primary OS. I already run it
on my servers and development laptop, but day to day I still use Windows.
I installed it last night, and went to bed with it running updates.
This morning it was turned off, and when I turned it back on it said
something about the machine as shutdown due to thermal failure (!!).
Today at work I was working away ... and the machine became very slow
(it was just idling with some terminal windows open). I shut it down,
picked it up and it literally burned my hands. I let it cool down, and
now it refuses to recognize the harddrive (a replacement works -- yay
for spare parts!).
Has anyone ever experienced this?? Is there something special you
need to do with a modern-ish Dell laptop to run Ubutnu? Its been
chugging away fine for years on my Dell Latitude X300 and other laptops.
LINUX (or some combination of that and bad power management?) KILLED
MY HARDDRIVE!
Stan
Ubuntu 8.10, Dell latitude D620, intel core duo 2.0ghz.
This could be one of those odd coincidences. It's much more likely a
hardware failure than a software issue. The fan got jammed; a capacitor
burst; the power supply surged. All of those things have happened to me
in the past (all on machines running Windows, I should add). I've had
two whole motherboards melt. As the old-time electrical engineers say:
"There's smoke in all them chips. The trick is to not let it out."
It seems that Ubuntu did the proper thing - it got a shutdown event due
to the thermal failure and turned itself off during the night before any
hardware failed.
I seriously don't mean any disrespect, but the bigger problem was
ignoring the thermal failure message and running the computer all day.
The problem most likely still exists!! Have the machine looked at
before it melts, destroys another hard drive, or starts a fire.
Frank Pagliughi
