Dan, Are you suggesting that the operating system has absolutely no ability control over the system fan's? Specifically that there is no way the i8k kernel module somehow failed and left the fans in a disabled state, and/or that some other ACPI control system disabled CPU throttling?
In this case it seems as though the CPU fan died of its own means around the same time I installed Ubuntu; or simply the installation exacerbated the issue due to installing Ubuntu and performing updates caused the system to work at full cpu speed -- while Windows was able to scale the CPU speed back as I was not doing anything very intense. That failure along with the system running extremely hot for a period of time perhaps assisted a 2 year old abused laptop drive to stop working (it actually works now that it has cooled off.. as scarry as that seems to me... so it may have just been a southgate/ide controller overheating). Stan On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Dan Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > Hogwash. Clearly a hardware (HD, fan maybe) failure, and nothing to do with > Ubuntu or linux. > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > ------------------------------ > *From*: Stanley Brinkerhoff > *Date*: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:20:23 -0500 > *To*: <[email protected]> > *Subject*: Ubuntu killed my harddrive! > 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. > > >
