[ltp] too hot T60

[Carles Pina i Estany]

Hello,

My T60, lastly, is too hot.

Having the KDE, load average 0.4 (downloading some things to external
USB) the temperature is always 69ºC or 70ºC.

Fan is mainly on all the time.

Some information:
carles@pinux:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan     
status:         enabled
speed:          3255
level:          auto
commands:       level <level> (<level> is 0-7, auto, disengaged,
full-speed)
commands:       enable, disable
commands:       watchdog <timeout> (<timeout> is 0 (off), 1-120
(seconds))
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal 
temperatures:   69 51 50 87 52 -128 47 -128 51 64 65 -128 -128 -128 -128
-128
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ lsmod |grep -i think
thinkpad_acpi          48028  1 
nvram                   8488  2 thinkpad_acpi
carles@pinux:~$ 

carles@pinux:~$ uname -a
Linux pinux 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 00:37:55 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
carles@pinux:~$ 

(from Debian)

I searched in Internet and I think that the temperature should be a bit
lower than 70ºC for an idle desktop.

I'm not monitoring everyday the temperature, but the fan is quite much
time on. Now I will also monitor the temperature.

A couple of times the Kernel has switched off the computer because it
reached 100ºC (!!)

I bought this computer on August 2006, I've never updated the BIOS.

Thank you,

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