Did some really stupid thing today

[arthurleung]

Set laptop not to standby upon lid close, forgot to set it back after lecture and left it in the bag for 80 minutes.

When I open my back, and RMClock reporting 95'C on my CPU and Speedfan report HDD at 70'C.

I'm quite amazed my laptop still worked. The reliability of my laptop will probably go down the sink in the months to come, and I may need to get the HDD replaced just in case of an early failure.

Surprisingly (or not so suprisingly) I've never done any backup from my laptop before. Seems to be a good chance to start.

If I did fry my harddrive today I would have lost all lecture notes I've made in the last 2 years
Not a good thing especially when exam time is coming close.

I wonder if there is any program that will standby the computer when HDD exceed a certain temperature (i.e. 55'C which something is obviously going wrong.)

The use of a notebook backpack seems to be have a negative effect on this kind of human errors because of the poor (or should I say horrible) ventilation inside the thing. Glad I actually don't have anything else in my backpack, otherwise I think the laptop will definitely stop working.

[explicitlyrics]

I use hard disk sentinel which is a great program. It tells you so much about the hard drive and you can see which programs are putting strain on it and all sorts. In the options you can also set temperature alarms or automatic standby/shutdown.

[chrestomanci]

Set laptop not to standby upon lid close, forgot to set it back after lecture and left it in the bag for 80 minutes.

When I open my back, and RMClock reporting 95'C on my CPU and Speedfan report HDD at 70'C.

I used to do that all the time in order to prevent memory effect damage to my laptop's nicad batteries. (This was in 1994, and my laptop had a 25MHz CPU). I am supprised that modern laptops can be damaged by by it.

I wonder if there is any program that will standby the computer when HDD exceed a certain temperature (i.e. 55'C which something is obviously going wrong.)

The use of a notebook backpack seems to be have a negative effect on this kind of human errors because of the poor (or should I say horrible) ventilation inside the thing. Glad I actually don't have anything else in my backpack, otherwise I think the laptop will definitely stop working.

I wrote a program to do that for my linux box. It checks the CPU temp every 30 seconds or so, and if it is to high it underclocks the CPU to keep the temperature down. If that does not work and the temperature gets really high it shuts the system down.

If your are running linux, the PM me and I will send you a copy. If you are running Mac OS and feel like doing some porting, (or windows and feel like doing a virtual re-write), then likewise, just ask, and I will send you a copy. It is written in perl BTW.

[staffsMike]

Well I fell asleep using my old vaio. I woke up with it attempting to cook my leg (thankfully just my leg ) and the fans screaming. It was boiling to the touch but I just let it cool down (for about 20 minutes ) and It's still going 2 years later

[Behemoth]

Fell asleep with my old laptop on not so long ago, it was making one hell of a noise that much I can say, thought it was going to lauch itself into orbit. Was dead lucky really because it was starting to smell, could have started a house fire.

[Cozwin]

Well I fell asleep using my old vaio. I woke up with it attempting to cook my leg (thankfully just my leg ) and the fans screaming. It was boiling to the touch but I just let it cool down (for about 20 minutes ) and It's still going 2 years later

i once did something similar but worse, laid in bed with a portable dvd player, fell asleep, with a bad of sweets next to me, woke up to it burning me ouch, then stood up to realise i had tons of gummy sweets melted to me, they are a bitch to get off lol

[TheAnimus]

always back up your laptop very well, you never know when it might get stolen!

[staffsMike]

i once did something similar but worse, laid in bed with a portable dvd player, fell asleep, with a bad of sweets next to me, woke up to it burning me ouch, then stood up to realise i had tons of gummy sweets melted to me, they are a bitch to get off lol

that is classic!

[streetster]

always back up your laptop very well, you never know when it might get stolen!

very true... and make sure not to keep the backup disk IN THE LAPTOP BAG.. cos when that gets nicked you are stuffed.

[Timmy!!!]

Managed to get my laptop cpu to 105 degrees C after rendering for a couple of days constantly... I've got no idea how it still works but it's still going strong a year later

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

i once did something similar but worse, laid in bed with a portable dvd player, fell asleep, with a bad of sweets next to me, woke up to it burning me ouch, then stood up to realise i had tons of gummy sweets melted to me, they are a bitch to get off lol

Lmao!

[Dreaming]

always back up your laptop very well, you never know when it might get stolen!

Today some lads barged into my room at uni whilst I was in there, said they were looking for John to play football - lamest excuse ever. I've never seen these guys before and they didn't look like students. Youths would be an apt description. Got the porter, we and about 10 other security guys went round looking around the college. 20 minutes later get a call on the radio, stolen laptop. It's one of my mates as well I'm gutted that I didn't do something more. Like throw my 15" 'deeper than it is wide' CRT at them.

[ACiD303]

Surprisingly (or not so suprisingly) I've never done any backup from my laptop before. Seems to be a good chance to start.

If I did fry my harddrive today I would have lost all lecture notes I've made in the last 2 years
Not a good thing especially when exam time is coming close.

I couldn't do that, all my Uni work is backed up again, and again, and again, and after each semester I have a spring clean involving....triple or quadruple backups. The amount of times I've been told to resubmit (I swear, it's only me this happens to on my course) makes me cringe at the thought of not backing up.

One of tutors emailed me, about 4 months after the assignment deadline, asking me to resubmit (without penalty obviously), and I knew a lot of people who didn't even know what a backup was....yeah, thank god I had backups!

I'm not one for backing up at all, all my e-media can be replaced in an instant (well, several hours!) but when it comes to uni work, I spread them across many backup systems as I can just for a piece of mind.