Is there a ventilation intake at the bottom? if so, and you operate the laptop on a table, try elevating the rear side (or the side where vent is) but a centimeter or so. Old laptops with bottom air intake need more space for getting more air in.
I'm not much a fan of those "laptop coolers" you can find in shops like CD-R King. --- mike t. ----- Original Message ---- > From: andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:38:59 > Subject: Re: [plug] linux on toshiba with phoenix bios run hot > > Happened to me too with my old compaq notebook. Turn acpi off for the > moment, and your cpu won't overheat. > > -- > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Martin Acupanda wrote: > > Hello PLUG, > > > > I have Ubuntu Linux 8.xx on an old toshiba with phoenix bios. I works > > nicely but unfortunately it suddenly "dies" without warning after a > > few minutes of cpu intensive work. I am quite sure its the temperature > > of the processor because the laptop's keyboard and case in the region > > where the processor is located gets very hot. The fan seems to be not > > working hard enough. I have already scoured the internet but found no > > solution in sight that deals with temperature or fan control for a > > toshiba with a phoenix bios. > > > > I have also checked the its heatsink but it is clean and not clogged with > lint. > > > > As shown below /proc/acpi/[fan|thermal_zone] is not helpful at all. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/fan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/ > > ac_adapter button event info sleep wakeup > > alarm dsdt fadt power_resource thermal_zone > > battery embedded_controller fan processor video > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > > > Before I open it up and hard wire the fan to its power supply anything > > you can advice, share so that I can at least control the fan to lower > > the temperature of the processor? > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > > > Martin Acupanda > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
