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 -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...