Subject: Re: cold laptops are no good & reiser rules
From: Damien Hull (dhull@digitaloverload.net)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 14:30:23 AKST
Thanks for the info. I thought I was going to be - a laptop this
morning.
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:58, fulton@gci.net wrote:
> Starting a cold Laptop can cause permanant damage and alot of the time they become paper wieghts
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
> Date: Saturday, March 8, 2003 11:46 am
> Subject: cold laptops are no good & reiser rules
>
> >
> > Had a bit of a scare this morning. Thought I'd share my experience
> > so no
> > one else goes through the same thing.
> >
> > I forgot my laptop in the car last night so it was a little cold
> > when I
> > hit the on button. It turns out that cold laptops don't work well.
> > Afteropening a few applications the drive started making noise and
> > the system
> > froze. First thing that popped into my head was that the drive was
> > goingbad.
> >
> > During a reboot it tells me that somethings wrong with the drive and
> > stops. Again I'm thinking that my drive just died on me.
> >
> > After a couple of reboots the screen looks brighter and everything
> > works. Guess it needed to worm up a bit. From now on I'm only booting
> > worm laptops.
> >
> > Thank God for reiser fs. Without that I'd be reinstalling Debian.
> >
> >
> >
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