Re: turbo on lenovo w530 causing over-temp warnings

2014-03-30 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
I've just installed mcelog, if it'll help me figure out what is going on I'll try it. But the actual reboots come from an actual thermal alert, I've seen them appear in the console just before the machine shuts off. It seems at around 100-110c, something (lmsensors? Kernel?) will 'shutdown -h no

turbo on lenovo w530 causing over-temp warnings

2014-03-30 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
I have a lenovo w530 laptop with an intel i7-3720QM processor, and when running something with high cpu use causes the cpu to be put into the highest turbo mode and stays there as long as the core is being used. It doesn't scale back to the real max frequency once temperatures rise. I've had my