[ltp] Re: Official test whether overheating is a warrany case?

[Thomas Hartwig]

Can't you simulate this in Windows?
Are you sure the fan is running at high speed when the temperature is
high? Is your workload your typing work or heavy computations?
It is quite uncommon to have the system turned off, there must be
something related to the fan or its connection to the CPU. Or probably
simply the CPU is bad. I am sure it is a warranty issue.

Use gkrellm and thinkpad_acpi to observe the fan speed and temperatures.

JM2C
Thomas

On 01/13/2011 10:35 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since a while, my T400 notebook tends to shut down automatically due to
> hot CPU at some workloads that used to work without issues previously –
> and that although only one of the two cores is used in that workload.
> I’m now wondering if this is a warranty case, but I guess they will not
> be convinced by „I’m running Linux, but that is not the cause, so please
> fix it.“
> 
> Is there some kind of official check tool that maybe even boots from
> USB, like those disk-checking tools that are often provided, and checks
> whether the system takes the load it should be able to take without
> overheating?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joachim
>