[tlinux-users:07745] Re: overheating and shutdown (for me that is)

Great catch. I however have a commercial setup at my house
and have a dryer/filter on the line so I am protected, but you are so
right.

Lyle Giese wrote:

> jt wrote:
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>> This is all over the net and the long  story short in my case and i 
>> suspect
>> in just about all cases is dust blocking the cooling airway.
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>> I have Satellite A75-226  ran fine for 1.8 years  then started randomly
>> shutting down under medium to high CPU load.
>> I thought ACPI, no not the problem here.
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>> Read about the dust/lint collecting  on various parts in the Laptop
>> Took my  120PSI air hose to the unit, fans, heatsink, every nook and
>> cranny and all over the keyboard and problem solved, fans are now
>> quite, did full  compile of kernel 2.6.16 and fan stepped up only one
>> notch in speed.
>>
>> BTW  Toshiba recognizes this problem and they have extended the
>> warranty on some models until  year end  2006.
>> There is also a class action suit about this problem.
>> Richards Computer (Atlanta, Dallas,  others) told me about the
>> extended  warranty, but the high pressure air  solved it for me.
>>
>> BTW I would not bother with the canned air go to a tire shop etc.
>> and use their high volume air, it will work  better.
>>
>> I will update this list if I start having problems again, but  I believe
>> I solved the problem by blowing the dust away,
>> Ps be careful of spinning the fans too fast with the compressed air,
>> you could ruin them.
>> jt
>>
>>
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> Carefull using air from a tire shop.  You can get water in that source 
> of air and end up spraying water into your computer/laptop(been done 
> that have the wrecked computer).
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> Canned air is dryed and cleaned to a much higher standard that tire 
> shop compressed air...
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> Lyle
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