[ltp] Thermal woes on Thinkpad T60p

[Phil Shotton]

Peter Lemken wrote:
> Greetings,
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>
> finally managed to snatch a new T60p at a reasonable price. 
> Manufactured in 2006 but left in some obscure dealer's stock until 
> last month I got it with full 3 year on-site service until 2012.
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> Which I have had to use twice now, because the machine runs unstable. 
> Playing 3d-games in Windows makes the machine freeze hard after 20 
> minutes or so. Sometimes, somtimes not. When it shut down, it wouldn't 
> start Linux, unable to load the RAM-disk. Leaving it a lone for 
> 15minutes returns everything back to normal. Sometimes the machine 
> completely freezes, particularly when I load graphics in gimp or start 
> google earth. However, this has only happened under Ubuntu so far, not 
> under Mnadriva which I run on a separate partition. Tried installing 
> new radeon drivers from git under Ubuntu, but the problem persisted.
>
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> Specs: 2,16 GHZ Core Duo T2500, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Mobility FireGL V5200
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I have similar spec T60p - I've had a few (rare) thermal shutdowns that 
have not recurred since blowing the dust out of the heatsink/fan housing 
using a vacuum cleaner. GPU never gets over around 75. Looks like you 
have a heatsink problem.

Good luck
Phil