How to figure out if CPU or GPU has been damaged by a thermal spike on Fedora

I have bought a new Asus Rog Strix laptop, and I ran on it Windows for a month without any issue. After I changed OS and putted Fedora 37 on it. My laptop has an NVidia 3060 with 6 GB (and a Ryzen 7 40000 series), and I was expecting compatibility out of the box with Fedora, I was wrong. After installing Fedora everything seemed ok, and so I left the laptop on standby in a bag for a couple of hours, once I returned I found the laptop inside the bag **really hot**, with almost all the battery drained and an endless amount of system errors. I quickly restarted it, and installed all the proprietary drivers, and after that I have experienced, in the following moths of use, absolutely no problems. Seems that the missing proprietary drivers were the culprits. Problem solved right? Kinda.. Since then I am afraid that the thermal spike could have damaged some of the hardware components. The laptop is working flawlessly as far I can tell from normal use, but I really would like to make sure that no hardware component was damaged during that incident. **So my question is:** *how can I know if the thermal spike caused damage to my hardware?* This question I think naturally divides itself into two subquestions: - Is it possible for a laptop running Linux (Fedora) to fry itself in a couple of hours? Aren't there some hardware/BIOS/UEFI safety mechanisms to prevent that? (Even if closed in a bag) - What is the best battery of test to run on Fedora to check for thermal hardware damage? And how can we compare our performance versus new hardware?