On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Frank Pagliughi <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > Blame the user! :) The thermal shutdown was a BIOS-level shutdown, nothing to do with Ubuntu I am afraid. The drive would have simple been old, however I think the extended 100 degree Celsius working environment didn't help. However the blame apparently shouldn't be footed by Ubuntu in this instance -- I just ran through the system diagnostics and the system CPU fan doesn't work all of a sudden! Strange cooincidence it stopped working just as I installed Ubuntu it seems. Hard to tell what caused what at this point I suppose -- but I can't imagine Ubuntu disabled ACPI fan controls. There arent ZOMG UBUNTU KILLS LATITUDE threads -- so I shalt call Dell, and once more try Ubuntu when my harddrive/cpu fan arrives! Stan
