On (26/09/05 17:31), Thomas Steffen wrote: > On 9/25/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I spoke to Acer support who referred me to the small print re: official > > acer software blah di blah. > > > I assume you bought the notebook in the UK. In this case european consumer > law is applicable, and you can conveniently ignore all the smallprint. If > they advertise a 64bit CPU, you can rightfully expect to run 64bit > applications. They may not support the OS, but you are not asking them to > support the OS, so that should be fine.
Yes, things have moved on. Following the various posts here and Giulio's suggestion to stress test the system under windows, I found Hotcpu Tester which has about 6 hours of tests including arithmetic tests. I tried the first one and it shut the machine down in about 5 mins. > You can also try to get thermal zones to work. With ACPI that may be > supported on Linux 2.6. In effect, the clock frequency is reduced when the > temperature gets too high, and this prevents overheating. > > Personally though, I would not put up with a lemon, and I would get them fix > the issue. > > I've just > > tried the Ubuntu install and whilst exploring how it handles samba > > networking it shutdown X with an error along the lines of temp exceeding > > 44 degrees .... shutting down. > > > 44 degrees is not that much, after all the notebook should probably work > with an environment temperature up to about 35 degrees. So maybe Ubuntu is > being to conservative here? Maybe thermal zones are already set up, but the > shut down temperature is very low? > I spoke to a fairly enlightened support person who agreed that it obviously a h/w issue although he said 44 degrees is more likely to refer to the system than the cpu. He confirmed the amd64 chip should run 64 bit applications without a problem irrespective of the operating system. So it's back to Acer again for repair. > Unfortunately, I could never get thermal zones to work, so I can't really > help you with that :-) If it is repaired properly, it shouldn't be necessary. Many thanks for everyone's help ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]