[ltp] Re: _very_ high temperatures

[Anthony J Moulen]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:44, Jiang Qian wrote:
> 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
This is definitely not right, I have a Z61M which uses the same chip 
essentially (but mine is a 2ghz) and I know a couple of people with T60P 
units with the 1.83 chip and none of us have this problem.  Check you CPU 
usage.  Mine will get warm when at high CPU usage but still not that hot.  I 
don't know which number represents the CPU versus the GPU on the termartures 
list but nonthing in mine is over 60.  I run Gentoo 2006.1 with KDE, and 
several of the people I work with have T60Ps  with gentoo on them and none of 
them are complaining about heat issues. 

What you didn't include is which kernel you are using on Gentoo.