bricked my laptop?? =(

[port23user]

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my HP Compaq laptop (nc6230). I had it running great for a few days. Then one day I left it alone for 10 minutes. My wife said she saw it on the desktop screen, then on the screensaver. When I got back, the screen was black. Now I can't even power on my laptop. No lights, no beeps, nothing!

I think my laptop motherboard is completely dead. So I have two questions:
1. Is there anything that I might be overlooking that might fix it?
2. Is this something that could have been caused by Ubuntu? I would guess it's a longshot...but then again, my laptop has been running fine on Windows for 3 years; 2 days after installing Ubuntu, it's broken.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[madverb]

I don't think Ubuntu is at fault but it could have caused your computer to overheat... but generally it should shutdown if it gets too hot. I think your computer just died. It just happened to be while running Ubuntu.

[atomizer]

you could try to take out the battery and the powercord out.
If the powersupply overheated, you should take it out of the wall-socket for about a minute.
Else your laptop did die

[stalkingwolf]

first I would check the power supply and the battery.

Second it is possible it was "just your lucky day". I have had
this happen twice lately. Once a Dell laptop that I had been using
for months for testing. I sold it and the next day the fan quit, it over heated, and cooked the processor. The other was a desktop that I had just
upgraded. for 2 days it worked fine. I unplugged it delivered it, and when the customer got it home, nada,bupkis, zip,zilch. I ended up replacing the board and power supply.

The one law that will always apply to all things in life is Murphys Law.

[terribletrouble]

No power, no lights, no bios = hardware!

Nothing to do with any OS you had or have installed.