Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:11:15 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it? |
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Please keep me CCd
Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:18:17AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > I have this exact same laptop. It works perfectly for me with linux. > > Originally started with a 2.4 kernel and recently went to 2.6.10. The modem > > works well, the video card works well even with 3D accel. I replaced the > > original 30gb hdd with a 40gb (for space reasons). The only complaint about > > this thing I have is the fact they used an nvidia video chip. I have seen > > more than 4 months uptime on it (I used to use it as a desktop) > > I think it does not like being moved. A friend of mine had his one repaired > several times because of either hard disk failures, backlight failure and > the machine refusing to boot at all. I've never seen such unreliable hardware!
Mine didn't have that problem. At the time it was the fastest machine I had. I got away from it though with my nice xeon box =)
I have never heard of a machine that if you move it it'd quit working. That's bad. I have heard of a machine quit working because someone looked at it the wrong way.
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