Three installer questions

Soren Hansen sh at linux2go.dk
Sun Oct 1 20:13:53 BST 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Mitch Golden wrote:
> 2) I've recently learned that on Dell laptops, the CPU fan is
> controlled by the software, not hardware.

I don't know about all Dell laptops, but the one I had a few years ago
was indeed hardware controlled, but could be overridden by software.
Should the software fail, THAT's when you could fry your machine. In
that case, the safer choice is to leave it to the hardware.  

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