hard freezes on f14

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On 01/09/2011 02:13 AM, Hiisi wrote:

> I saw similar behavior on my girlfriend' acer 5102 laptop. It was
> running ubuntu. Both smart tests were OK and no strange messages neither
> in /var/log/messages nor in Xorg.*.log. Before I could investigate that
> case any deeper a southbridge on the laptop motherboard has died... It
> seems that the reason was its overheating.

  Yes I've seen similar with hardware problems too - the laptop was
largely sitting idle and temps are normal - no screen or keyboard
activity - and only mail and browser up (plus a fw inactive terminals).

   g/