Re: [SOLVED] Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Alphonse Ogulla aogu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-14 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:25 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [

Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya, I recently swapped a failing 160GB hard drive on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with a 1TB disk then installed Debian Wheezy on the entire GPT disk with LVM over LUKS. However, whenever I tried copying a 130GB gzip backup from an external fuseblk USB drive to my new home,

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and was possibly interfering with the CPU cooling. I assembled all the pieces, rebooted

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Tom Grace lists...@deathbycomputers.co.uk wrote: On 13/08/13 10:02, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: After a lot of googling, I decided to tear down the laptop, expose the cooling fan and give it a good vacuum job to get rid of any dust that might have accumulated and

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Tom Grace
On 13/08/13 13:19, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The system is going down for system halt NOW! Regarding the canned air solution, is it a one-off job to clean out the CPU heat sink or is it for a continuous circulation of air directly over the heat sink? It's for a one off, it gets the dust out from

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread green
Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875] thinkpad_acpi: temperatures (Celsius): 87 42 33 62 50 N/A 34 N/A 40

Re: Thinkpad T61 Critical temperature reached (103 C), shutting down

2013-08-13 Thread Catalin Soare
On Aug 13, 2013 8:42 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Alphonse Ogulla wrote at 2013-08-13 04:02 -0500: Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.433022] thinkpad_acpi: THERMAL EMERGENCY: a sensor reports something is extremely hot! Aug 10 23:05:57 curiosity kernel: [ 3601.434875]