[ltp] _very_ high temperatures

[Jiang Qian]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:47PM +0100, Karel Podvolecky wrote:
> Hi,
>  first of all, sorry for my bad English :-).
>  I have serious troubles with temperatures on my T60 (2007-F4G). When I 
> did last week system update in Gentoo and went out. When I came back, 
> the /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal says:
> cpu 110 C
> gpu 110 C
> and my TP was as hot as a chicken on a grill. Yestereday, my TP had a 
> hard lock, again it was too hot.
> 
> In all cases, fan was running at ~3800RPM. I never saw running it over 
> 4000RPM. I think, my TP is unable to cool down enough. What can I do? I 
> cannot use all power of core duo, when I have to take care of 
> temperature. It has normally temperatures over 90 C when one core is 
> under load.
> 
> My core duo has 1.83GHz max. I cannot imagine, how can *p models with 
> core duo at 2.13GHz cool down itself :-/. weird...
I don't have a T60, but you seriously need to call the technical support 
of IBM/Lenovo. I'm pretty sure this is not normal at all and you have a 
problematic thinkpad. If it is not under warranty, you may want to check 
if the thermal gel is properly applied.
Jiang
> 
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karel Podvolecky
> 
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