On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>... 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).</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Phil</div><div><br></div></div>