[ltp] Overheating

[Martin Hermanowski]

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Hi,

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:08:16PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I bought a T42 a month ago, I've never experience overheating issue
> until last week.  Here the spec of my laptop:
>     T42 - 2378 RBF  (I know, RBF does not exist on IBM site, but that's
> what is written under it)   =20
>     Pentium M 1.7
>     512 MB RAM
>     80 Gig HD
> I'm using ACPI with speedstep_centrino driver combined with cpufreqd un
> Gentoo Linux.  I don't have to explain that this was not a problem when
> I first install my computer.  Right now, a simple loop like: while true;
> do true; done will overheat my CPU.  The result is that the system shut
> down on a critical temperature error ( 90-95 C) (note: removing
> temperature module do the same result, but the bios shut down the
> laptop, no the OS).  When idle, at 1.7 GHz my cpu temperature is 69 C,
> which is really high for a centrino.  I had a DELL centrino 1.6 before
> on which I compiled my actual Gentoo, it never become higher then 69 C
> while compiling.  I didn't find any temperature monitor on Windows, but
> I observe that it becomes very hot and then scale down to 600 MHz and
> then come back to 1.4 GHz and will never get full speed after.
>=20
> I'm suspecting a hardware failure, but I just want to make sure,

I'ld suspect the same, I have a T41p with the 1.7 GHz CPU, and right now
it is at about 43 C, the highest temperature I remember was about 72 C.

Is your fan working?

MfG
Martin

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