[GRLUG] temperature problems

[Mike Williams]

Assuming the fan is working, by the time I get down to a BIOS, the CPU 
will be quite a bit cooler than it was while running, so a lower reading 
in the BIOS won't mean much. Will it?

On 10/27/2011 12:30 AM, Richard Nienhuis wrote:
> Those apps are frequently inaccurate.  Check it in your bios if it 
> will read back your temp.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Mike Williams 
> <knightperson at zuzax.com <mailto:knightperson at zuzax.com>> wrote:
>
>     My trusty Toshiba laptop runs awfully hot based on the gnome
>     sensors applet. If it's not reading true, it's at least showing
>     something related to temperature as the reading goes up under load
>     and down at other times. As I start writing this, it had just hit
>     98C and produced a "Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock
>     throttled" message. What worries me is that while the fan is
>     blowing, it's doing so at far below its fastest speed. I don't
>     think the fan is just clogged or anything because in Windows it
>     will go much faster. It seems like the equation for when the fan
>     goes to what speed needs adjusting, but I don't know where that is.
>
>     Any ideas how to fix this? OS is Ubuntu 10.10. The hardware is a
>     Toshiba a305-s6872, which is a core2duo centrino running an Intel
>     GM45 chipset.
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