[ltp] too hot T60

Carles Pina i Estany linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:59:08 +0200


Hello,

My T60, lastly, is too hot.

Having the KDE, load average 0.4 (downloading some things to external
USB) the temperature is always 69ºC or 70ºC.

Fan is mainly on all the time.

Some information:
carles@pinux:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan     
status:         enabled
speed:          3255
level:          auto
commands:       level <level> (<level> is 0-7, auto, disengaged,
full-speed)
commands:       enable, disable
commands:       watchdog <timeout> (<timeout> is 0 (off), 1-120
(seconds))
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal 
temperatures:   69 51 50 87 52 -128 47 -128 51 64 65 -128 -128 -128 -128
-128
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ lsmod |grep -i think
thinkpad_acpi          48028  1 
nvram                   8488  2 thinkpad_acpi
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ uname -a
Linux pinux 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 00:37:55 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
carles@pinux:~$ 

(from Debian)

I searched in Internet and I think that the temperature should be a bit
lower than 70ºC for an idle desktop.

I'm not monitoring everyday the temperature, but the fan is quite much
time on. Now I will also monitor the temperature.

A couple of times the Kernel has switched off the computer because it
reached 100ºC (!!)

I bought this computer on August 2006, I've never updated the BIOS.

Thank you,

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