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Re: Live boot wifi handling

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On 18/07/2019 20.06, Mike Easter wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> I have a 'new' refurb Lenovo laptop x131e
>> Also, I have another story about related hardware and cpu heating.
>>
> This refurb hardware was on sale at Fry's which I like to buy 'dicey'
> type stuff at a storefront like Fry's or WalMart because they have
> excellent return policies.  Some refurbs are shabby, beat-up, or b0rken
> in some way.  Mail-order gets you into RMA return blues/hell.
> 
> In any case, I confirmed the hardware availability at Fry's and picked
> it up and brought it home and charged it up and booted into the Win10
> and activated that, no problem.  The condition was excellent; it
> appeared unused.  Then I started trying to boot up some linux live.  I
> would get some alert such as 'no IRQ handler for vector' which might
> progress to a boot or the machine might just shut down.
> 
> This performance was inconsistent; sometimes it might boot.  On the
> occasions which it would boot, maybe its wifi would be working and maybe
> not.  Mostly there was way too much not booting caused by shutdown.
> 
> Occasionally during a boot failure some distros would give me a thermal
> warning.  This led to further investigation which showed me that on the
> successful boots I could use something like inxi -s to tell me that the
> CPU was running about 90 C, but the fan wasn't all that fast, less than
> 500 rpm.  It was never 'noisy'.
> 
> Then I started trying to check the temp in the BIOS (nope, nothing
> there) or w/ Win (nope, nothing in the default) so I installed a Core
> Temp app in Win and discovered that altho' Win consistently booted, it
> was also consistently about 90 C just quiet at the desktop.
> 
> If I were going to troubleshoot it, I would be removing the battery so I
> could see if the cpu cooler was 'adherent' properly or the vents were
> clear or whatever, but as a brand new machine, I decided to just return
> it and swap it for one which wasn't like that.

Did you tell them? Or some poor sod will get a too hot machine. :-p

> I am now doing my testing w/ its replacement, which is doing just fine
> in that regard.
> 

What temp?

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 10:49 -0700
  Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 11:06 -0700
    Re: Live boot wifi handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-18 23:07 +0200
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 14:31 -0700
        Re: Live boot wifi handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-18 17:51 -0400
          Re: Live boot wifi handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-20 12:58 +0200
            Re: Live boot wifi handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-20 11:22 -0400
              Re: Live boot wifi handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-20 22:31 +0200
                Re: Live boot wifi handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-20 18:14 -0400
        Re: Live boot wifi handling "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-20 12:46 +0200
  Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 12:29 -0700
    Re: Live boot wifi handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-18 16:52 -0400
    Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-19 11:40 -0700
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-19 12:41 -0700
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-19 16:06 -0700
    Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-20 10:45 -0700
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-20 20:39 -0700
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-21 03:27 -0700
  Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 14:07 -0700
    Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 14:54 -0700
    Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-18 15:51 -0700
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-18 22:53 -0400
      Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-19 10:55 -0700
        Re: Live boot wifi handling Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-19 13:08 -0500
          Re: Live boot wifi handling Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-07-19 11:16 -0700

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