[ltp] Re: Critical Temperature Trip Points?

[David Abrahams]

on Mon Apr 28 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh-AT-hmh.eng.br> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Mon Apr 28 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh-AT-hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, David Abrahams wrote:
>> >> > That seems a lot to BATn. Even when charging, when it gets to its high, it
>> >> > never passes 45C on my T61p and I find that a lot already.
>> >> 
>> >> So what do you suppose that means?  Could it really be getting that hot
>> >> or is it likely a misreading?
>> >
>> > There seems to be a bunch of batteries out there doing this.
>> >
>> > Please send me by private mail the following information:
>
> Can you test in Windows if the battery also misreports its
> temperature?

I don't currently have dual boot set up; do you think my kvm windows
installation will report anything reasonable?

Of course I can install windows XP all over again, but, well... that's
painful.

> I don't know how to get all thermal sensors from Windows, though, you'd
> need a third-party program I believe.  Probably one of the thinkpad
> fan-controller programs for windows will do it, since they need the
> thermal sensors to implement a fan control loop in windows userspace.

NHC was my favored item when I ran Windows

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