This question might seem strange, please do accept my apologies if I am wrong , 'Can linux power saving modes destroy the hardware its running on?' I installed Linux on my old system, It was my first experience with Linux and I liked it and made it the default OS on my system. After two weeks I decide to try the power saving mode i.e. the sleep mode since I didn't want my computer to consume power. Everything went smoothly till the third time it came out from the sleep mode, there was a loud sound and the motherboard was fried. I believed it to be a hardware problem since it was a two year old system(but heavily upgraded). A similar incident occurred on my new system when I put the monitor in sleep mode (Turn off monitor after x minutes). It also suffered the same fate. I am now scared to enable any power saving mode. I also read about a similar incident on the internet.
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