Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Richard <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:27 pm, Franklin Maurer wrote:
> > 1. It's the laptop turning itself off. Given that it's
> > a P4 inside it produces enough heat to provide for a
> > small Polar community. (weird though that it hasn't
> > done it before)

If you are running your laptop continuously you might want to get one of those 
laptop coolers.  Generally they are a thin piece of aluminum with two fans. 
It lifts the laptop up and blows air under it.   

My Compaq now recharges the battery 100% and maintains it!  Before the cooler 
was installed, the only way I could get the battery to charge was to turn off 
the machine for a while and let it cool down.  My brother;s Dell runs so cool 
the fans no longer come on where they were running all the time.

I picked up a couple of the things at a computer show in LA for about 20 
bucks.  You may be able to find some on the net for around that price.
Richard