[ltp] Re: [ltp] 80°C in a T41p?

[Osho GG]

I had the same thing happen to my T42p. It would routinely go as high
as 93 C when I was doing anything requiring 100% CPU. This would in
turn cause kernel to halt the machine as a precaution against damaging
hardware permanently. This drove me nuts.

So, what did I do? I downloaded the acpi fan control scripts (search
for it in linux-thinkpad wiki) and installed it. This decreased the
temperature but increased fan usage like crazy! The fan was ON so
often it was annoying.

But wait, there is more! Finally, my fan broke down and my laptop just
won't boot up. This meant I got a replacement :). The new one works
just fine without any problems with temperature or fan.

Osho

On 7/16/06, Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since my machine came back from repair, it seems to become strangely
> hot. At first I thought that a BIOS upgrade might have sacrified cooling
> in favor of noise, but that much? I regulary get more than 80°C,
> sometimes even 90°C when compiling my kernel etc.
>
> If you have a similar ThinkPad, could you please run
>    while true; do : ; done
> for a while (stop it with Ctrl-C), and watch the CPU temperature with
>    watch cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
> and tell us how hot your CPU gets. I'm sure others will find this
> interesting, too.
>
> Thanks a bunch!
> Joachim
>
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