OK, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try when i next get close to a vacuum cleaner.
j On 11 March 2012 10:06, Barry Titterton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 07:42 +0000, James Morrissey wrote: >> Ok, that's good to know. It is a bit frustrating if high temperatures >> break the fan... >> >> j >> >> On 10 March 2012 20:00, Neil Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: >> > It is very possible that temperature is the problem. It's not a bug though, >> > it's a hardware issue. >> > >> > Neil. > James, > > Your cooling may not be broken, it may be that the heat exchanger matrix > on your CPU is blocked with dust and fluff from your home furnishings. A > quick check would be to use your vacuum clearer to clean the heat > exchanger by sucking 'the wrong way' through the matrix. I regularly > have to clean the matrix on my home desktop PC. My understanding is that > a machine with a hot CPU will reduce the operating frequency of the CPU > to reduce the heat generated. This will impact on the available > performance of the CPU and may be source of the reports of your CPU > using 100% of its available performance to do basic operations, because > its maximum available performance is greatly reduced. > > Barry T > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- James Morrissey Research Officer Refugee Studies Centre | Department of International Development | University of Oxford 3 Mansfield Road | Oxford, United Kingdom | OX1 3TB -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
