[ltp] Power drain with ACPI

Nils Trebing linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:30:48 +0100


Joel Ebel wrote:

> Interesting.  This seems to indicate that WinXP doesn't exhibit this
> 
> problem.  That's where I get it.  And it matches the description. 
> Power 
> drain, and it stays hot, right under the CPU.  I wonder if a BIOS
> update 
> changed something?
> 
> Joel

I'm using the latest BIOS (1.21) on my R40 since quite some time, but
that didn't change anything in this respect. But you could still try
updating the BIOS of your machine.

Nils