One thing that could help in cooling is don't put your laptops on top wood surfaces, heat dissipates faster on metal surfaces.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:17 AM, andrelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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