Brian Craft wrote:
Dom Incollingo wrote:
Christopher Shanahan wrote:
On Saturday 30 April 2005 09:54, Dom Incollingo wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:19 -0500, Dom Incollingo wrote:
Hello,
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My laptop was exhibiting the same symptoms a few months ago. It had a bad solder on the mainboard. Whenever I did something that caused the laptop to heat up, such as reading/writing data, the machine would shutdown. The abrupt shutdown was a failsafe to protect the CPU. It was not repairable. One month out of warranty. Thanks Toshiba!
I sincerely hope your laptop is not having the same type of issues. And I hope you have your data backed up.
Regards
-- Christopher Shanahan
The laptop is only 4 months old, and I've already had to replace the CD/DVD reader. HP gave me very hard time, because they insisted that it was a software problem (i.e., Linux) rather than a hardware problem. After I complained, they finally agreed to repair the laptop - and they confirmed that it was in fact a hardware problem.
I sure hope that this isn't a hardware problem or I'll be fighting with HP again.......
Have you tried logging in via KDE if you have that installed to see if it's a Gnome problem?
Brian, Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me to try loggin in via KDE. The last couple times I tried to boot the computer, the system crashed before I got to the login screen, so I figured that the system must have somehow been corrupted. I reinstalled 9.3, and it is working fine so far. I've got my fingers crossed.... :-) Thanks for the suggestion. If this happens again, I'll try logging in to KDE. Dom