Same thing with me. have to return two supposedly, laptop coolers. The only one that works well is I forgot the brand, but the characteristics is:
* It elevates the laptop on the back by 1 inch. This is what you mentioned. * The fan pushes the air to the bottom. You can feel the gentle air moving on the sides of the laptop. * No external power, uses power from the usb. Because of the elavated+fan design, the air cools the whole bottom of the toasty MBP and drops the temp. from 49 to 40-44 range celsius. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
