I’ve got quite a few laptops laying around these days. Every once and a while I get into a buying jag of surplus gear on EBay and bam suddenly the office is filled with a “like whoa” excess of something.
It’s cheaper than gambleing or drugs, okay?
*ahem* So, I”ve got one of the laptops up, rebuilt, working OK accept for the USB port which is strangely mis-aligned (not my fault, that). Then it starts freezing every so often.
Now, I’m testing Debian unstable via Knoppix for an (prospective) article on the release so I’m not totally surprised. But these look like heat lockups.
About five minutes of kernel setting twideling later the ACPI support is online (and doing dynamic CPU regulating, I might add) but I noticed that it was running at about 130 Degrees F. After a reboot.
In conclusion, laptops like to be cool. Working 5mm fans are your friends.
