On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote: > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one > change during three 15 min. sessions.
Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources? (...) > I guess I'll never know. How could a dust buildup cause a sudden change > in the course of one session? I didn't see anything that seemed to have > been sucked in all at once. Bad heatsink or old fan? > The Debian part is, could sensor reporting by ACPI, I8K (for Dell) and > libsensors be dead-ended at 85' C? "lmsensors" reads the values provided by the BIOS but can they be wrong unless you load the right modules. > I am thinking that physically removing and replacing the cooling unit > maybe got me a lucky realignment of sensors or something. 85' C would > just have been a default on failing. As you changed "nothing" is quite strange, but I would just replace the whole heatsink with a newer one, put a new layer of thermal paste and check for any BIOS update. > But the fan had to be in on the bad information too. Does it's > information come from the kernel. It comes from BIOS. You better check the BIOS values to reassure. > BTW, this is a Pentium M, 1.6 GHz., which is suppose to handle heat > well. IIRC, Pentium M saga was not very "wattage hungry", I mean, it had a very low TDP (<30W) :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
