Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation
On Saturday 11 April 2009 13:26:30 Aleksa Šušulić wrote:
> The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been
> used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with
> Debian (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a
> breeze). The only other instance it does happen is when my current OpenSuSE
> system freezes (stops responding), ramping up the CPU to 100% usage: if I
> don't switch to a virtual terminal and reboot within, say, 10 minutes, the
> laptop will shut itself off from overheating. Hence my assumption that the
> machine simply is not DESIGNED to work at full throttle (100% CPU usage)
> for any length of time. But I may be wrong, of course.
>
> As a sidenote: I've found a thread on internet a while ago stating that you
> may risk overheating and even frying a laptop if you try installing
> Windows98 as a virtual machine, since Windows98 does not support the CPU
> "idle" instruction. I assume something vaguely similar may be going on
> here. Modern laptops with fairly powerful CPUs apparently rely on certain
> subsystems of the OS to effectively prevent overheating. If some of those
> subsystems don't work as expected, overheating will occur. I find it hard
> to believe there aren't more laptop users with this sort of problems...
I got my granddaughter an Antec cooling pad (as distinct from a gel one) to
cope with am overheating problem in her laptop. It seems to work, especially
when the fan is running.
HTH
Lisi
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