Am 08.06.2015 um 00:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: > Hi all, > > Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of > compiling ;-) ) > > I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I > believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, > even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty old!) > > Anyway, I noticed during my last compile-fest on my laptop (reinstalled, > switched to systemd for testing) that a corner of the laptop is getting > really hot. We are talking a fair bit of heat here, you can't keep it on > your lap when it warms up. > > So I took it apart yesterday, figuring I should re-do the thermal paste. > During this process, I discovered it's the southbridge ICH chip that's > overheating. There's no cooler at all on this chip (the northbridge and > CPU have heat piping), it's a bare chip. > > Now, I suspect there's not much I can do about this given it being a > laptop and I might have to resign myself to the fact that I'm going to > have to buy a laptop later this year/early next year. > > I am curious though, what causes this chip to overheat, and can I do > something about it? > > I'm using lm_sensors, which doesn't provide a temperature for this > particular chip. I've monitored processes and nothing really stands out. > I've even tried disabling plasma, no luck. > > Dan > >
are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'.
