3

[ubuntu] Overheating Laptop.

view full story
linux-howto

http://ubuntuforums.org – My Laptop is running very hot. To the point that Ubuntu is giving me warnings. Now it's not crashing or anything. What I do notice, however, is that when I first turn on the computer I can run BBC iPlayer smoothly. As time goes on it becomes more choppy as the Laptop heats up. How can I cool it down? I have had it run overnight downloading and it's not crashed on me ever. I just wish there was a way of cooling it down a bit. Thanks, any wisdom appreciated. (Hardware)

dayu's picture
Submitted by dayu on 03/30/2010 – Made popular on 03/30/2010

Stories similar to [ubuntu] Overheating Laptop.

Hi,

I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 (64bit) on my laptop (Lenovo W500). Computer keeps rebooting itself randomly and sometimes even before system has fully started. I get critical temperature warnings sometimes. These errors only happen when running installed copy of Ubuntu 12.10, not when using...

I have an HP Pavilion DV7-4263CL which as an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6370s card in it.

The problem I'm having is that it is overheating. However, the catch is that it's overheating so quickly that I can't even get through the initial software updates before the laptop shuts down.

Any tips on the quickest way after a stock installation to get the overheating problem under control.

I have a dual boot laptop, of lubuntu and windows 7. I really like ubuntu, and I rarely boot on to windows 7 now. However, one issue that I could not resolve, was that my hard drive heats up on every ubuntu variant that I have tried. I already have tried cleaning dust out of my laptop,and proprietary graphic drivers (Nvidia Gt540M) are installed, and bumblebee is running well.

I am running the new Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit release on my MSI CX420 laptop.

I've got a relay old laptop,(win 95 era) 133 MHz processor 32 mb ram 1.7 gb hdd

i was thinking about giving it to a friend and disited win 95 wasn't going to cut it. i am most likely going to have to go with puppy, but i would rather go the ubuntu rough if i can get it to run smooth, what do you think is the newest version I could get to run smoothly?

I realise there is an older thread on the very subject but that seems to be pretty dead.

I just got a Dell Studio XPS 1645 laptop and the fan noise and overheating is pretty ridiculous. This is actually a well known problem with the laptop that is apparently solved with the combination of a BIOS update and the purchase of their 130w charger.

I'm having this problem for a long time.

[ubuntu] Basic Log help 1 year 10 weeks ago

I when my laptop gets running with a lot of processes, I hear the fan start going into overdrive and recently a few times my laptop has even turned off, before I could check anything in System Monitor. It is not the best laptop (Acer Aspire 4530) 2GB Ram, and an Athlonx2, so I am almost positive that it is overheating.

[other] Brand new laptop dead 30 weeks 2 days ago

I recently purchased a System76 Pangolin Performance. Unfortunately, my father placed the order and so I can't file a support ticket from my account.

Though the laptop arrived about two weeks ago, I was away at college, and I got my hands on it yesterday. Everything worked fine, and I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10. I was casually exploring LibreOffice when the laptop crashed.