Comment 76 for bug 59695

I think what's coming out from these comments, is that people *want* their BIOS / ACPI settings to be over-ridden, when they're set at values which will destroy hardware fairly swiftly.

Thats _why_ people have constantly requested this issue be made critical, and worked on.

Personally, I have a laptop, currently gathering dust. In the past, I've been thinking about turning it into a webserver... now I'm _very_ glad I never got round to that, as it has long since passed its warrenty (coming on 2 years old now...) and I don't want to have to spend the money replacing the hard-drive.

This does not appear just to be a problem with Ubuntu, but with Windows & OS X as well, although from what I've read online, Windows DOES override the hardware manufactuer's settings to a more sane value, if a little more stressful than a normal desktop machine.