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Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
by wwortiz 16y ago
Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
- niels_olson 16y agoNot to take away from either of you, but I had a very similar problem with Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 9300. I would open my insulated laptop backpack, at least once every few months, to find a computer too hot to touch and the smell of baking foamcore. I have not had that problem with Ubuntu, and it has been running on that machine since 7.04.
- jsz0 16y agoIt was compounded by a hot day and being inside a backpack. The problem I was having at the time was a hard lockup of the system on sleep maybe 30-40% of the time due to the ATI graphics driver. My best guess is once the machine hard locked ACPI was unavailable to auto-shutdown the machine once the CPU passed its threshold so it ran until the battery died instead.