On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). The > only > other instance it does happen is when my current OpenSuSE system freezes > (stops responding), ramping up the CPU to 100% usage: if I don't switch to a > virtual terminal and reboot within, say, 10 minutes, the laptop will shut > itself off from overheating. Hence my assumption that the machine simply is > not DESIGNED to work at full throttle (100% CPU usage) for any length of > time. > But I may be wrong, of course. > > As a sidenote: I've found a thread on internet a while ago stating that you > may risk overheating and even frying a laptop if you try installing Windows98 > as a virtual machine, since Windows98 does not support the CPU "idle" > instruction. I assume something vaguely similar may be going on here. Modern > laptops with fairly powerful CPUs apparently rely on certain subsystems of > the > OS to effectively prevent overheating. If some of those subsystems don't work > as expected, overheating will occur. I find it hard to believe there aren't > more laptop users with this sort of problems...
So they install a powerful CPU for the marketers to get you to drool over, then don't provide the necessary cooling so that when you actualluy _use_ the CPU power, the unit fails. I'd call it a design flaw and return the unit. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
