[Bug 370173] Re: laptop overheats and suddenly shuts down/off

2011-02-16 Thread Eloi Espanol
Hi Greya, I'm having the same problem you had, but in my case the laptop do shut down. I also have a Dell studio 1558 (bought about 8 months ago) and I recently installed Debian Squeeze. At first it worked fine, with no overheating problems. The only thing I did is setting up the wireless (install

[Bug 370173] Re: laptop overheats and suddenly shuts down/off

2011-02-16 Thread Eloi Espanol
Hi Greya, Thank you very much for your detailed comments about it, they're really helpful! When I upgraded the BIOS to v11, I tried leaving the laptop on for some time without running any applications and it apparently worked just fine (although I didn't check the temperature). It was when I star

[Bug 370173] Re: laptop overheats and suddenly shuts down/off

2011-02-26 Thread Eloi Espanol
I did some research on this issue and I got very confused. As I was looking for the possible reasons, I began finding many issues that could be related: - May it be a problem with the sensors? I found that the sensors-detect command didn't find any supported sensors in my system. the "sensors" com