[ltp] t41p gets damn hot

[phaidros]

Thanks Teemu,


> In brief, it says: the system usually runs at 600 MHz and the temp keeps in 
> around 40 ­C. When I did "cat /dev/zero > /dev/null" the temp rose close to 
> 70 C and after killing that and doing "normal" stuff with varying clock 
> speeds, the temperature settled back towards ~40 C. Room temperature  was 
> about 22 C and the fan was working hard during and after the test.

cat /dev/zero > /dev/null causes the cpu-governour to raise the cpu
speed and within 30 seconds it reaches near ~90C, which so far looks
uncool ;)

> > Is there a 
> > useful cure (running always an 600-1000MHz on a 1.7GHz machine is not
> > useful ;) )? Could this be a hardware problem?
> 
> Could be fan or dust problem. Did they mount the heatsink properly in the IBM 
> repair shop? Also running constantly at 1.7 GHz seems to heat up things quite 
> a bit.

I'll call IBM next week and they shall fix it. Thats best I think. 
Thanx for all replys!

ragards,
phaidros