On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > [snip] > > > > I can't keep mine [laptop, ed] on for too long, despite having all the > > latest acpi patches on a self-compiled 2.4.18 kernel. The CPU > > temperature, I think, is what causes mine to crash if I keep it on for > > too long (even throttling when I take a cigarette break) > > Sounds like your fan(s) aren't working hard enough. If it's a Dell, then > the i8kutils package might help you keep the temperature down.
It's a compaq presario 700, and as far as I know the most of the one who have it had problems similar to mine. It is much better than at the beginning now, but still...
