On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 02:50:03 AM Tod Merley wrote: > For me three years is about the time I consider doing two major service > things to laptops. > > 1. Replace the CMOS battery. One thing you might consider doing right now > is to reset all the CMOS variables to their default values. If a battery > is low the values can change on their own and create strange problems that > go away when the default values are reloaded – until – the machine is > turned off again (and perhaps left for a time) so the battery voltage goes > low and the bits slip again. Anymore I consider replacing the battery > every other year. >
AFAIK CMOS battery on my laptop Thinkpad T420i is on the motherboard. It is too much effort to replace the CMOS battery. I can certainly look into it. Thinkpads have really great battery life. After using this system for 3 years battery life is still quite good. I may want to save battery replacement money in future laptop though. > 2. Clean and/or replace the cpu/gpu fan and heat-sink assembly. The > accumulation of gunk in these assemblies (often combined in a laptop) is > dependent upon how much use the machine gets and where it is used. Blowing > air through the assemblies may or may not be good enough. Local changes in > air temperature, humidity, and altitude can make quite a difference in how > fast heat is removed from the active components. As well sometimes the > heat sink compounds degrade and/or mechanical issues change the heat-sink > to cpu/gpu fit. > > fwiw Advice taken. I think Baloo the new KDE file indexer might be at fault here. Whenever I leave my system and come back I see two major processes baloo_file and baloo_file_extractor are always on top. And system temperature is around 90C. Once system temperature is that high it takes a while to get it down. Not to mention Linux tends to be very bad for multimedia stuff. Anytime you watch a youtube video there is a good chance that system might shutdown due to high temperature. -- Sudhir Khanger, http://sudhirkhanger.com http://github.com/donniezazen -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
