[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Announcing the First LoCo Day Event]

2010-10-03 Thread Alan Bell
-- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre ---BeginMessage--- Hello everyone, It is my great honor to be able to announce a new Ubuntu Classroom event that will be taking place: LoCo Days [1] ! To quote the wiki, Most Classroom sessions done in the Ubuntu community are done in English. However, we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unable to install 10.04.1

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the kernel was panicking, about my hard drive dyeing! he told the commanding officer and he broke the hunting ban, by killing a firefox! On 2 October 2010 17:10, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: The lights flashing generally mean that the computer had a kernel panic which can be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread javadayaz
CPU fan is working fine... check the CPU fan, 71C is way to high On 2 October 2010 17:01, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I don't know how relevant this is but bios is telling me the following.. Cpu temp 71c System temp 34c Is this normal? Ok so I'm experiencing something very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread javadayaz
I don't think it is..looks clean enough. How can I check? Just blow on it? On 3 October 2010 12:12, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: CPU fan is working fine... check the CPU fan, 71C is way to high Is the CPU heat sink clogged with dust? -- Philip Stubbs --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
71C is still way too high, my system is currently creating backups of my 3 websites, extracting the text from the backups, synthesising it into a wav and converting it into ogg vorbis while playing music and browsing the web and my CPU core temperature is 45C, and I have a stock fan! On 3 October

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Beard
On 03/10/10 12:12, javadayaz wrote: CPU fan is working fine... If it's 71°C then it looks like your fan isn't working fine! It could be clogged up with dust. Dust is not your friend, if the fan is dusty say between the metal fins then it works like a blanket, air can't get through and cool

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread javadayaz
Yeh I thought so too. Although the last time I removed the heatsink and applied the cooling gel was a few years ago. 71C is still way too high, my system is currently creating backups of my 3 websites, extracting the text from the backups, synthesising it into a wav and converting it into ogg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Stephen Garton
My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and regularly runs at 70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video. I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to get it to cool down! sheepeatingtaz 71C is still way too high, my system is currently creating backups of my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I've got a phenom X4 too, SNAP! On 3 October 2010 12:40, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and regularly runs at 70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video. I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Alan Pope
On 3 October 2010 12:40, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and regularly runs at 70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video. I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to get it to cool down! My Toshiba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Beard
On 03/10/10 13:09, javadayaz wrote: Rob. It is an and CPU. Should I disesemble..remove heatsink..apply cooling..shall I try this? If you're confident in doing this then yes. What I have done in the past with old heatsinks is dust them off, take the fan off and clean it as best as I can then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread javadayaz
I've cleared out the dust and temp def has come down a few degrees..but I can't understand why the keyboard won't work! Works fine when in bios but then won't work when I'm in livecd. On 3 Oct 2010 12:36, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 03/10/10 12:12, javadayaz wrote: CPU fan is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Barry Drake
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:31 +0100, javadayaz wrote: I don't think it is..looks clean enough. How can I check? Just blow on it? I( had a machine with the same problem that worked fine after I'd taken the heatsink off, cleaned it and the CPU and applied new heatsink compound before puting it back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread javadayaz
Ok will try this then... Can anyone explain the non functioning keyboard in ubuntu ? On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:31 +0100, javadayaz wrote: I don't think it is..looks clean enough. How can I check? Just blow on it? I( had a machine with the same problem that worked fine after I'd taken the