[GRLUG] Ubuntu Lucid & nvidia

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:53:02PM -0400, Philip Robar wrote:
> 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

That's a good idea, but it did it the very first week she owned the
laptop.  Unless it collects dust that quickly...  :-)
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