[GRLUG] temperature problems

[Bob Kline]

What would that read?  The core will
likely be hotter than the cooling fins,
or whatever device is exchanging heat
with the air.

   -- Bob


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM, John Wesorick <john at wesorick.com> wrote:

> You could always pop the back off and use an infrared thermometer. I have
> one you could use.
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> On Oct 27, 2011 12:35 AM, "Mike Williams" <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
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>> **
>> 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>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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