On Saturday 11 April 2009 13:26:30 Aleksa Šušulić wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with > Debian (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a > breeze). The only other instance it does happen is when my current OpenSuSE > system freezes (stops responding), ramping up the CPU to 100% usage: if I > don't switch to a virtual terminal and reboot within, say, 10 minutes, the > laptop will shut itself off from overheating. Hence my assumption that the > machine simply is not DESIGNED to work at full throttle (100% CPU usage) > for any length of time. But I may be wrong, of course. > > As a sidenote: I've found a thread on internet a while ago stating that you > may risk overheating and even frying a laptop if you try installing > Windows98 as a virtual machine, since Windows98 does not support the CPU > "idle" instruction. I assume something vaguely similar may be going on > here. Modern laptops with fairly powerful CPUs apparently rely on certain > subsystems of the OS to effectively prevent overheating. If some of those > subsystems don't work as expected, overheating will occur. I find it hard > to believe there aren't more laptop users with this sort of problems...
I got my granddaughter an Antec cooling pad (as distinct from a gel one) to cope with am overheating problem in her laptop. It seems to work, especially when the fan is running. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
