On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 22:44, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote: > > > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one > > change during three 15 min. sessions. > > Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources? > > (...) > > > I guess I'll never know. How could a dust buildup cause a sudden change > > in the course of one session? I didn't see anything that seemed to have > > been sucked in all at once. > > Bad heatsink or old fan? > > > The Debian part is, could sensor reporting by ACPI, I8K (for Dell) and > > libsensors be dead-ended at 85' C? > > "lmsensors" reads the values provided by the BIOS but can they be wrong > unless you load the right modules. > > > I am thinking that physically removing and replacing the cooling unit > > maybe got me a lucky realignment of sensors or something. 85' C would > > just have been a default on failing. > > As you changed "nothing" is quite strange, but I would just replace the > whole heatsink with a newer one, put a new layer of thermal paste and > check for any BIOS update. > > > But the fan had to be in on the bad information too. Does it's > > information come from the kernel. > > It comes from BIOS. You better check the BIOS values to reassure. > > > BTW, this is a Pentium M, 1.6 GHz., which is suppose to handle heat > > well. > > IIRC, Pentium M saga was not very "wattage hungry", I mean, it had a very > low TDP (<30W) :-? > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.05.31.17.14...@gmail.com > > I found a problem like that once with athlon x2, it used to go to more than 100C during some oridinary work. I opened the case, used a vacuum cleaner to clean everything thoroghly, and after that the cpu remained at 45C only.
