my laptop switched itself off - why?

[john maclean]

Hi guys,

I use the Compaq nx9005 laptop. It should be called a frying pan as it gets very hot. Last night I was looking at one of my bash log in scripts and the thing just clicked and turned itself off! Never done that before. I was online at the time so my (paranoid) mind initially attributed this to some spotty little 12 year old in Thialand.

Has this happened to anyone else before?

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Ozzy : Fedora Core One and WINdahs xp, dual booting
lappy : hewlet packard compaq nx9005 ( The frying pan)

[jebba]

Newer processors have the ability to shut the system down if they think they are over heating. They protect themselves from completely frying.

Perhaps it reached too high of a temperature and then shutdown.

I doubt it was a cracker. ;)

-Jeff