Fedora-10 killed my computer ...

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 26, 2008, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> Has anyone found the F10 has done something nasty to their BIOS?

I've had something like that happen to me instaling the Beta, and also
installing some earlier release.

I ended up resetting the BIOS to work around the nasty "USB current
overflow detected, shutting down" message (in spite of my having
disconnected everything from USB ports), but I decided the machine had
kind-of overheated because the install didn't enable cpu frequency
scaling.  I used to start cpuspeed by hand to enable Cool&Quiet during
installs, but I'm pretty sure that one time I didn't.

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