On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> > wrote: > > I run 10-current on Compaq 6715s. > > It's very hot and noisy. If I boot > > in verbose mode, I get lots of: > > > > acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 92.0 >= setpoint 50.0 > > acpi_tz0: _AC1: temperature 92.0 >= setpoint 60.0 > > acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 92.0 >= setpoint 40.0 > > acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 92.0 >= setpoint 50.0 > > acpi_tz0: _AC1: temperature 92.0 >= setpoint 60.0 > > > > at the console. > > > > I guess it's telling me that the CPU is too hot? > > > > Is that normal, e.g. under "make -j4 buildworld"? > > > > Probably not. I had a laptop with similar symptom when I was compiling > stuff. I took it apart, cleaned it and thought that maybe these log > messages were normal under stress. The CPU eventually fried and only > then I took a real close look and the heatsink had a very tiny little > hole where the fluid escaped, but it was not at all apparent at first > sight. These liquid (or gel?) filled heatsinks are basically useless > if the liquid escapes or evaporates so it will usually only show when > you are using the CPU a lot.
I didn't even know they put fluid heatsinks in laptop. I thought this was something from IBM cutting edge power6 chips. So I might need to pull the laptop apart.. I'm just not sure I could put it back together... Thanks anyway -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
