Suitability of Sony VAIO laptop for FreeBSD?

[Brian Reichert]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:37:51AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> Last Saturday, my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5000e) apparently stopped
> working for the last time.  (Ugly mode of failure -- won't stay powered
> up (even via AC adaptor) to complete a boot sequence; usually doesn't
> even get as far as illuminating the screen.  I suspect either thermal
> stress on the CPU, a crack in teh system board, or bad RAM -- and I
> tried swapping the RAM, to no avail.)

My ancient Vaio PCG-C1XS is still cranking, running 4.10. :)

On an aside: said Vaio was demonstrating the same symptoms as your
current laptop.  I found that it's a bad battery.  If I remov the
battery completely, and just use AC, the laptop will run just
dandy...

> Thanks!
> 
> Peace,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
> I resent spammers because spam is a DoS attack on my time.

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