Just to mention that I am experiencing the same problem with DELL XPS M1710 on ubuntu 64 bit (both 8.10 and 8.04).
The system randomly get the fans running at full speed despite the system monitor report CPU usage below 25% and temperature below 40 degrees. When the fans kick in, the system slow down so much that the only viable option is rebooting; besides, the CPU and GPU "hibernate" in the real sense of the word, with their temperature plummeting below 25 degrees. On ubuntu forums there has been some speculation the problem might be related to the graphic card. I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX running proprietary driver version 180.44 ** Summary changed: - Fan constantly running - Dell XPS M1530 + Fan constantly running - Dell XPS M1530 and XPS M1710 -- Fan constantly running - Dell XPS M1530 and XPS M1710 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
