<posted & mailed> Linas ?virblis wrote: > What do you mean by "overheats"? Does it become extremely slow, or shuts > down? Or does it simply become warm? How do you monitor temperature?
It gets hot on the bottom, as i can tell on touch, eventually it shuts down. Also three temperatures are displayed on the panel by 'kima' (kde applet), i guess from acpi. As far as i have noticed, those temperatures never reach 50 C. > > Most new laptops run quite warm. The temperature of the motherboard can > reach 50 C, and CPU may run at 40 C - 55 C. This is usually normal. I do not know how repliable are those acpi temps. They change a little (as far i have notice), but some times my laptop is almost cold on touch, as i rarely use for intesive computation. Most of the time i spend with it is for reading, writing or web browsing. Yet, after hours, quiet and cold, the bottom starts warming up, after more hours, in a few minutes, fan starts running at the highest speed, a writing shows up on the screen: 'critical temp reached' (over 100 C) and the machine shuts down. > > The most common reason for overheating is broken ACPI, and (as a result) > CPU fans not turning on. Also check if went holes are not clogged with > dust, if the machine is not new. i have checked: fan is running, i can tell by the air jet on my hand > The disk should never ever overheat, even under load. If it does, > something is terribly wrong. Temperatures between 40 C and 50 C are > usually fine. So it the cpu that is overheating Thank you for your suggestions about laptop-mode-tools and hdparm -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
