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Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation



Klistvud:

> Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to 
> 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. 
> It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless 
> to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan always ON when on AC power" set to 
> enabled, but to no avail.

Does that mean that the fan doesn't turn on at all?

It may help to disable ACPI during installation (boot parameter
acpi=off).

J.
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