[GRLUG] temperature problems

[Richard Nienhuis]

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>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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