Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, 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.
I had similar problems with my previous laptop (some Dell, based on a
Pentuim 4). It indeed had poor power management and overheated on e.g.
upgrading the TeX packages or on large builds. A cooling board helped to
ease the pain but if the CPU worked hard enough, it would eventually
shut down.
My current laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with Core 2 Duo T7500, and
does not overheat.
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