[ltp] 80°C in a T41p?

[Kelvin KAN]

Have you checked the fan is still working to exhaust the heat?

(left-hand-side between the PCMCIA & microphone jack)

Just my 2 cents.


Joachim Breitner wrote:

>Hi,
>
>since my machine came back from repair, it seems to become strangely
>hot. At first I thought that a BIOS upgrade might have sacrified cooling
>in favor of noise, but that much? I regulary get more than 80°C,
>sometimes even 90°C when compiling my kernel etc.
>
>If you have a similar ThinkPad, could you please run 
>   while true; do : ; done
>for a while (stop it with Ctrl-C), and watch the CPU temperature with
>   watch cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
>and tell us how hot your CPU gets. I'm sure others will find this
>interesting, too.
>
>Thanks a bunch!
>Joachim
>
>