Well i am grateful to everyone for taking this post seriously. I didnt suspect Linux either and I intend to believe it was a faulty SMPS. But after the incident I am afraid to use the sleep mode. The reason I am taking this seriously is that recently a week ago I decided to give the 'Turn off Monitor' a try in KDE. The description says that selecting the option will completely power off the electron gun after the specified idle time and thus bringing power consumption to a minimum. I specified the time as 2 MINS and my monitor did just that. Of course I had to turn on the monitor two or three times in an hour to check the status of the PC ( I use my pc to download files and play music- we dont need to keep on the monitor all the time do we?).I was completely satisfied with the result, but on the next day my monitor refused to switch on, the technician said that some parts may have failed due to voltage fluctuations or power anomalies. This doesnt seem like coincidence does it? Maybe the frequent on and off cycles had damaged the monitor? I advocate Linux to everyone I talk to so I better be aware of the problem.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, nishandh M <pro.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > i noticed this, in compaq laptop model v5000TU, with an ubuntu 7.04, when u > shut down, the Hard disk is in use untill the last micro second (untill the > system LED is off), and the kind of clinking sound is heared from the HDD > area, the same u hear when u force an abrupt powerroff.But in the newer > version ubuntu-8.04, the HDD usage indicator goes off a little befor the > system LED goes off.and its a very silent one.the sound form the cpu fan was > also irregular druing shutdown in earlier case. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
