Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:52 pm, Sebastian Wolff wrote:
> Dear SuSE community!
>
> This is a call for help and a troll against linux.
>
> Is it possible that in particular situations Linux may kill the main
> board of any laptop?
>
> By now I destroyed with the help of SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9.0 2 (!)
> laptops in the last 2 month: An older Maxdata and a brand new Dell
> Inspiron 5100. Both show the same symptoms:
>
> They simply don't react after turning the power on (except turning on
> the fan and the CD drive). The repair service believes it is the main
> board which must be replaced.
>
> And each time the 'damage' resulted from similar situations (the
> first time I believed it was the age of my laptop):
>
> I wanted to change the BIOS configuration. To enter the setup you
> have to press F2 in the very beginning. Usually I miss this time.
> Hence, I resetted the computer after missing it. However, I am used
> to damages to the file system in the worst case - therefore, to press
> reset is a very common and intuitive way.
>
> Well. Sometimes it can also kill your whole hardware.
>
> Now I have 2 questions:
>
> (1) What happened ???!
>
> (2) Who can I sue for it?
>
> After all this operating system (really, I liked it till now)
> destroyed a value of 2500 Euro (2700 $) within only 2 month! As a
> student I can live with that money for a whole year - and then I
> wanted to finish a research project next week - 3 complete month of
> work are gone now.
> Now, this is a 'free' operating system. Who is responsible? Linus
> Torvalds? SuSE? The developer who produced this bug? Rather nobody.
> After this incident I have to define 'reliability' in a new sense.
> This warranty problem might be a reason to encourage companies to
> stay at Windows, HP-UX or MacOS.
>
> Regards
> Sebastian
==============

HELLO!  Reality check needed over here!

Sebastian, for one thing, do you even think that Dell would offer to 
replace a motherboard for you if they even remotely thought your OS was 
causing it to die?  Now the user, I would guess they might suspect.  I 
think you might want to look elsewhere for your problem as Dell will 
certainly not want to replace your unit many times.  I suspect either 
they will locate the problem or warn you about doing something wrong.  
Otherwise, check your facilities at your location, including the 
connection between the chair & computer.  ;o)

Lee
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