Laptop running too hot now?? *sigh*

Discussion in 'Overclocking & Cooling' started by thomas234, May 20, 2008.

  1. thomas234

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    So you may have seen my other thread about my PC running a bit warm.

    I noticed recently that my laptop has it's fans on full a lot more than it used to.. ever since I installed Linux. I downloaded lm_sensor and installed it following a guide. When I type sensors into the console now, I get this...

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    [thomas@localhost ~]$ sensors
    k8temp-pci-00c3
    Adapter: PCI adapter
    Core0 Temp:
                 +74°C
    Core1 Temp:
                 +74°C
    
    The laptop is only running aMSN (which is hardly CPU intensive...), and has been on about 20 minutes. I have googled around for temperatures for the same processor (AMD Turion 64 MK-36, single core), and they state about 55 degrees idle and 75 under load.

    Could it be Linux that it doing this? I don't have ACPI or APIC disabled anymore, they only needed to be to boot the live CD.

    Thanks once again, Thomas
     
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    Hmm well what would you know, I solved it myself!!

    I ran 'top' and got a list of processes, realised that one related to do with aMSN was using 98% CPU, so I got it's PID, typed kill <PID Number>, and voila my CPU is down to 59 degrees!
     

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