[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[Philip Robar]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

>
> ... my wife's HP laptop (bleh; horrible! overheats while rsyncing to a USB
> hard drive!). ... Everything seems to just work (except sound, but that's
> the motherboard failing from all the overheating; it happened with Vista
> for my wife as well).


Have you checked to see if the overheating is being caused by dust? Maybe
some canned air sprayed into the cooling paths or some minor disassembly and
cleaning would help. My Dad's HP laptop gathers a lot of dust around the
intake fans on the botton of the case.

Phil
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