I have a Presario 1500 as well and experience the same (albeit worse) problem. When it first started experiencing symptoms, I noticed because itw ould shut down during large compiles. I found that it would hit 85 degrees C and then just kick off. Blowing it out really, really well gets the temps int he sub-74 degree range and everything seems peachy. Granted, that's only getting it as low as what you are concerned about. However, I've been operating this particular computer for over a year at these temps with no problems (except for having to take the time to spray canned air in every month or so).
Nick On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:51:39 +0800, mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Gentoo on Compaq Presario 1500 for almost a year now, and > everything is fine and dandy except for one thing: the CPU gets hot > quickly whenever I emerge large packages (xorg, mysql, kernels). > > Currently I don't have any control apps (speedfreq, cpufreq), and I > resort to distcc (which keeps the CPU temp somewhere between 65 deg C > to 68 deg C - without it it goes as high as 74 deg C). Another thing > that I do is Ctrl-S to suspend the compile, let the CPU cools down, > and Ctrl-Q to continue. > > The fans are all working fine. > > Question: What other things I can do to cool the CPU while emerging? > Will using cpufreq/speedfreq helps? > > --mel > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
