Stan, Check out this post. There seems to be a bug with a certain Dell bios firmware and Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude D620.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg900044.html I also found this informative discussion about ACPI and it's implementation. It does mention a " crappy Dell bios" http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=125916 I believe problems like these tend to be a shade of gray. Unless, as Paul suggested, test, testing and retest. But you have to have the time to do that. But the time spent is not lost, when one posts results, it aides the next owner of an overheated Dell D620. eating oatmeal while four kids run around me, AUM!!! On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Stan, > > Despite the interesting posts on Google, a fan is, at the end of the day, a > moving part. When you took the fan out could it still spin freely? Did you > try to power the fan up outside of the case? Could it still spin? > > This is indeed facinating... > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^ > -- Chad Avery Montpelier Open Source 802.224.6481 www.montpelieropensource.com
