Re: X60 overheating with 7.1

Henrik Brix Andersen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:37:15AM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> I just got a Thinkpad X60 and have installed 7.1 STABLE on it.   
> Basically 7.1 and
> then updated to stable as of 10 Jan.  I have one major problem and  
> that is
> overheating.  I cannot run even a long compile without the CPU going  
> to 97C
> and shutting down.  Trying to do something like a buildkernel with -j  
> anything other
> than 1 also fails.

I have an X60s, and I too experienced overheating issues in the past -
but they turned out to be caused by dust in the heating vent.

I carefully used a vacuum cleaner for cleaning out the dust from the
heating vent, and the temperature reported by ACPI dropped by
approx. 10 C.

Brix
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