Listmates, I finally decided to take the plunge and eliminate the last bastion of MS from my life -- that means the laptop. I installed a new hard-drive loaded XP (well I still need QuickBooks) and then went to load 10.2 for my regular OS on my laptop. The install was *hellish* and required rescue and manual creation of swap, but that is another story. The system is now fully installed with everything working, wireless, etc... During install and after I finally succeeded in getting everything installed, my laptop overheats, freezes and dies. I have powersaved set on "acoustic" with active cooling, but the system still overheats. This box runs warm under windows, but never dies. One confusing "clue" is that under the suse install, the fans seem to run *more* than they do under windows, but the system still overheats? When you look at kpowersave, it shows *two* CPU's (there is only 1) and the first CPU is pegged at 3300 and the second at 1200-1600. I don't have a clue what this means other than it looks like my CPU is working overly hard on something. I have googled and found information suggesting uninstalling zend/zmd (which was nothing but trouble during install) and also setting hard values for /proc/acpi/fan/FAN1, etc, but nothing seems like more than a shot in the dark. Does anyone have any suggestions, links or advise for addressing this issue. I would really like to make the jump to 10.2 for primary use of my laptop, but with the heating/shutdown issue, that is obviously impossible. David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org