On Do, 2013-08-01 at 13:58 +0000, Christopher Barrington-Leigh wrote: > Thanks. Could be, but the fan control has never worked ideally under > GNU/Linux on this machine. Besides, shouldn't the processors be throttled > down based on the CPU temperature, even if I simply forced the fan to stay > slow?
I have no idea. But obviously there are some issues, and the CPU temperature can go over the top. And slowing down the CPU to a near halt doesn't make any sense either. The fan control using thinkfan has been working fine for me, and when I had the overheating issue even putting the fan into "disengaged" wouldn't be able to cool the CPU. > No warranty left. I tried cleaning the fan with air, without opening > anything up. That obviously didn't make a difference. > I'm hesitant to open up this machine, but might. That sucks :-/ It did look pretty complicated to do the fan replacement. Unfortunately I have no idea why exactly the fan replacement helped. But the fan seemed to be working fine when even when the laptop overheated. Benjamin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009731 Title: Since 12.04, CPU is overheating and powering off spontaneously under high computation load To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfan/+bug/1009731/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
