On 17/03/14 22:39, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I don’t get any google hits on Samsung NP300E5X-S01 motherboard failures. I am
curious, do you have a compatible power supply unhand? Might want to try
another one of those. I am also nervous about two laptops exactly alike having
failed motherboards. As they say in the military, once is a coincidence. Twice
is enemy action! I’m thinking bad power and supplies that do not detect power
events.
I think it was simply a case of bad luck.
I am not quite sure where you got the idea of two laptops exactly alike.
My son's girlfriend's laptop is a quite different make and model.
My son's laptop fried its motherboard on its original power supply.
As the marketing company is going to repair the thing it is really only
of academic interest.
What is far more interesting to me is why 2 quite different laptops seem
to have overheating problems with Windows 7.
I do not like Windows that much, and did suggest to my son he might
prefer Linux.
He did say that he would prefer Linux [having had a desktop PC running
GNU Musix while he was here in Bulgaria],
and the only reason he HAD to run Windows 7 was that he was required to
use Sibelius at the University [who had a cheapo bulk license for
registered students] which has Mac and Windows versions, and the latter
will not run under WINE.
Open Source drop-in replacements for Sibelius are not anywhere near as good.
Funnily enough Sibelius was first developed as a killer app for the
Archimedes computer; and the fact that Sibelius subsequently put out a
Windows version may have significantly contributed to RISC OS's death
knell as a desktop system.
Richmond.
Bob
On Mar 17, 2014, at 13:24 , Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/03/14 22:17, Bob Sneidar wrote:
The palmtop should have a heat sensor that prevents the very thing you are
experiencing. If an Intel processor overheats it will shut the computer off.
Are you running Linux on these? It may be that Linux prevents the automatic
shutdown of the OS.
This is a Samsung NP300E5X-S01
and it was running Windows 7 ultimate.
Richmond.
Bob
On Mar 17, 2014, at 10:41 , Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/03/14 17:26, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I think it really comes down to the quality of the laptop components, as the
prior post suggested, and particularly the display. Everything else in the
laptop is not that expensive, but the display might be a higher quality. If it
is just a stock LCD nothing fancy, then consider another laptop. BTW it is
quite odd for a motherboard to “fry” (barring abuse) in a laptop. Power surges
are usually handled fairly well by the external power supplies. Laptop power
supplies can afford to drop output power because they run on batteries. I would
definitely see if others with this same model are having issues. Might be a
lemon.
Bob
Luckily I went over to my accountant who dug out the documents from when I
purchased the laptop and it
turns out to be guaranteed for 2 years; and I bought it 18 months ago.
And, even more to the point, the company I bought it from have agreed to honour
the guarantee
[this being a rare phenomenon in Bulgaria], and have undertaken to repair it
and have it up and running within 15 days.
It might be a lemon, but my son did have it sitting on a desk for 7 hours, with
no cooler pad underneath it,
and was working on heavy stuff (Sibelius 7), running Windows 7; so the blasted
thing overheated and the motherboard became
a great-grandmother rather sooner than planned.
If I can have it running Xubuntu, with a cooling pad, that will do.
"Daddy" has already had to fork out for a replacement, so, at least, he
deserves his son's cast-offs . . . LOL
-----------------------
Interestingly enough, "the girlfriend" has a much more expensive laptop, also
running Windows 7, which went
the same way after a year. Again; silly girl didn't have a cooler pad; she,
also, unfortunately got some pretty nasty
burns on her legs.
Richmond.
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