I solved this using the suggestion on
http://collegegeek.org/index.php/2007/03/06/cpu-temperature-solution/

In my case (ACER aspire 1522) I entered..
echo -n "95:80:60:75:65:60" > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRC/trip_points
echo 4 > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRC/polling_frequency

(you may want to put this in /etc/rc.local as it gets reset on boot)

Note that previously no polling was setup by my clean install of 7.04  -
contrary to suse10.2/3.  As a matter of interest the /proc/acpi
directory for Feisty and a distro that works (suse10.2) are almost
identical except for the no polling.  However if I set them up the same
it still crashes under Feisty if you don't change the trip_points to
lower values.  It defaults to critical = 97C and passive = 90C for this
machine but feisty doesn't look like it throttles at all till it gets to
90C then it just shuts itself down (it may be trying to hibernate if
that is where the 'hot' trip_point is), whereas in suse the proc is
throttled back to 800MHz when the temp gets too high.  To my ear the fan
react similarly in both cases.

These settings may not be optimal as I do not know enough about acpi 
trip_points, polling freqs and cpu tolerances  but it does work..  for me 
anyways.
I would wait for an official solution if an unmelted laptop is important to you 
though :)

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