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Overheating is when something gets so hot it is to the point of being dangerous. An old fan that does not cool the processor fast enough might cause the processor to overheat, ruining the circuitry inside and rendering the processor useless.

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False overtemp error with ubuntu 20.04 on asus cpu dual boot with win10, win10 is fine

I have an Asus tough gaming minitower system which I have been using for several years. It's set up as dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 and win10. win10 is working fine for hours and hours for years. Ubuntu was ...
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Case and CPU fans would randomly spin slowly or stopping alltogether

My case and CPU fans would randomly stop spinning, or spin down (few hundred RPM) then stopping completely. It occurs every few days, the most recent event occurred approximately 1hr after resuming ...
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Dell Optiplex Fan not triggered at high temperature

I noticed recently that my Dell Optiplex 7069 miniPC tends to run quite hot as the fans don't seem to increase speed even when it gets hot. On inspection, I could see that the CPU was at 90degC and ...
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My Dell laptop fan is not spinning

I have dual-booted my Dell laptop. Now I have Windows 11 and Ubuntu. My problem is my fan is not spinning in my Ubuntu OS. But it spins when I at my windows OS. That is why When I worked on my Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 which sensor temperature is the CPU? [duplicate]

The sensors command lists the temperature of various components in the system, but which one is the CPU? How to link these labels with system components? sensors ...
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ASUS Vivobook 14 Overheating Issue on Ubuntu 22.04 with Ryzen 7

I'm encountering an issue with my ASUS Vivobook 14 M1402IA-AM173 running Ubuntu, equipped with 16GB RAM and a Ryzen 7 4800Hs processor. Just to clarify, I'm using the default power management settings....
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Heating and battery Drain issue in ubuntu 22

I recently updated my system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 22, and I’ve been experiencing significant heating problems and rapid battery drain since the update. This issue is affecting the usability and ...
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How to control fan speeds on Asus Laptop (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS)

Intro Hey guys, first of all I'm a total noob with ubuntu. I installed ubuntu 5 days ago to run stable diffusion with rocm. After trying for 5 days and getting a headache, I was finally able to run ...
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One of my usb ports stoped working when i pluged laptop cooler

So I use 2-3 days laptop cooler and then I went to work. When I opened my laptop case laptop was burning, I power off my laptop. When laptop was cooled down I started again and there was no problem, I ...
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How do I adjust the fan speed on my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti?

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card that has a base fan speed of 0 and because of that the GPU hits 50℃ to 60℃. That is too hot. Even when the fans are on minimum, it sits at high to ...
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Fan working non stop on Ubuntu 23.04

Before doing the 23.04 update (Lunar Lobster), fan on my laptop were loud, but they stopped sometimes... After the OS update, they run non stop and they are loud, even during light work overload like ...
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ubuntu 22.04 overheats my laptop

My laptop specs: brand: Lenovo model: Lenovo ThinkPad T420s RAM: 4GB HDD: 500GB graphic card: NVIDIA nvs 4200m processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4I I used windows 10 since my laptop ...
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CPU overheating, Ubuntu, 92C

just moved from Windows to Ubuntu, installed some tools, porting my c++ app in a few days my laptop feeled overheated Sensors output below https://ctxt.io/2/AABQ-PCsEg I measured temperature on ...
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How to change maximum allowable CPU frequency?

I want to permanently change the maximum allowable CPU frequency as some code changed it so I am constantly overheating my CPU. Can someone help me out with this problem? My changes to the new maximum ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 fancontrol & i8k not working

I have Dell Latitude 7480 running Ubuntu 22.04, and I tried installing fancontrol and i8kutils because my fan is simply not working, but after running pwmconfig I got following message: Found the ...
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Laptop starts heating CPU while watching youtube video

I have an acer aspire 3 laptop, with an intel celeron n4000 @1.10 GHz, 8GB RAM and mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600 (GLK 2) with a X.Org foundation driver. I buyed a blank ssd a month ago and installed ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consuming high CPU and RAM on HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7

I am experiencing an issue with my HP EliteBook x360 1040 G7 that's running Ubuntu 22.04. For the past few days my PC has been consuming high amounts of CPU and RAM, causing it to overheat and display ...
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Ubuntu autosuspends when CPU/GPU temperature reached 90°-92° C

I've been using Ubuntu for 2 days, and when I want to play Overwatch through Lutris, I can't. When I'm playing, the temperature is very high (~94° C on the GPU), and Ubuntu is suspending my laptop. I ...
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High CPU used and battery drain First tracker and now Isolate+. What is happening?

I have an HP Elitebook. Few weeks ago I started to hear the fan working often. Using top I noticed that "tracker" was using almost all of the CPU. I fixed with a solution someone posted here:...
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Laptop suddenly overheating and shutting down

This is my first time asking a question here, so let me know if you need more information. TL;DR: Why doesn't my fan show up in pwmconfig? Why is my computer overheating on specific programs? This is ...
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My laptop on ubuntu 22.04 began to overheat et turn very slowly at the start

I'm having a heating problem with my laptop. specs : hp elitebook 735 G6 ubuntu 22.04 ; cpu amd ryzen 3300U ; gpu radeon vega 6 ; 8go ram Sometimes he starts as usual.. But sometimes it is very slow ...
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How to apply specific patch to linux kernel 6.2.1-060201-generic x86_64

I have looked/searched and found no real answers/guidance on the proper way to get this done. I am hoping to find someone who can help me with applying a specific kernel patch (commit - I think is the ...
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Overheating despite the cooler

I don't know whether it is a software or hardware issue, but my notebook has been having overheating problems despite the cooler working. It comes on every few minutes, but only runs for a very short ...
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How do i control my CPU fan for Lenovo ideapad Z710?

my cpu has been idling at about 60 degrees celcius. and when running Minecraft, it goes up to around 85. this is causing the entire ubuntu 22.04 jammy jellyfish system to freeze until forcefully shut ...
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CPU is overheating and Ubuntu is not working

My CPU is overheating and Ubuntu is not working. cpuidInfoAMD says : NVRM cpuidInfoAMD: Unrecognized AMD processor My CPU is running very hot. It is an AMD Ryzen 5 5600x. My GPU is a Nvidia 3060 12GB. ...
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CPU overheating in ubuntu 22.10

I updated my ubuntu 22.04 to ubuntu 22.10 but now i have a problem. In previos version my maximum cpu's temperature was 40° but in this version Suddenly the temperature rises to 80° then my fan speed ...
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My mac ubuntu is overheating

I changed my operating system on my MacBookPro11,3 to ubuntu and as soon as I did that I started having overheating issues. As soon as I turn it on even if I just open the terminal and do pretty much ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 overheating laptop when lid closes

I'm having some troubles with my Ubuntu 20.04 laptop(HP Victus 15 FA0031DX). Whenever I close the lid, my laptop is still using power, and ends up heating up. I closed the lid after every time of ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS shutting down randomly

Laptop shuts down suddenly. Initially it happened when the laptop was not being used but recently it started happening even when I am using it. My laptop is quite old. I tried looking in kern.log and ...
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Brand New XPS 13 9320 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Overheating

It's been just two weeks now since I've received the new laptop. I noticed a few occasions where the laptop felt very hot. I use it for VS code for basic coding and bare minimum surfing of the web. ...
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Overheating and battery draining problems on Ubuntu

I had bought a Dell Vostro 3500 laptop (Processor: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7, Graphics: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics) and I started to use Ubuntu. In a short time I noticed that the laptop was ...
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New inspiron is OverHeating on 20.04 LTS

I bought a DELL Inspiron 5518 (16gb, 512gb + Nvidia MX450) this year. The laptop officially supports Ubuntu. I dual booted the Windows with Ubuntu 20.04 but there is very high difference between usage....
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Repairing failed apt upgrade

I have Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS, and I made an apt upgraderecently. The command took many minutes, and, when it was with a completion of 99%, setting up man-db, the server overheated and switched off ...
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Ubuntu crashes due to read-heavy operations/high SSD temperatures

For a few days, I've noticed that my Ubuntu-based machine has started to freeze while performing read-intensive operations. The freezing, however, does not occur during write-intensive operations. ...
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Mac Mini with Ubuntu running very hot

I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome on a Mac Mini late 2012 with 16GB Ram and a 1TB SSD. Even when it's doing nothing and the CPU activity is idling at about 10% the case is getting very hot. Much ...
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How to checking whether temperatures for SSD and HDD are correct. 22.04

Is there a way to check whether the temperature taken from the Disks and Psensor GUI are correct? Reason I'm asking is because regardless whether it's cold boot or after running for a couple of hours, ...
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ubuntu on macbook pro 10 (2013) overheating

I am running ubuntu on macbook pro (2013) and it is getting overheating compared to MACOS even with the mbpfan enabled. Are there any other ways to further reduce the running temperature? I see back ...
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Lenovo X1 5th gen - Fan issues

Recently I have experienced fan issues with my Lenovo X1 (5th gen). In particular, when the machine is required to perform some longwinded intensive tasks that require the use of all computational ...
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Cpu fan speed running low

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Sometimes when I run a heavy process my CPU temperature reaches 90-95 Centigrade degree but fan speed is 4500RPM, sometimes I saw fan runs up to 5100RPM but at highest ...
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Ubuntu 18 installation on a MacBook 6.2 (mid 2010) has graphics and overheating issues

I attempted to restore a MacBook 6.2 (mid 2010) that was very slow with the factory-hardware-configuration in early 2020 (4 GB RAM, GeForce GT 330M dedicated graphics board, and Intel Core i5). First, ...
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Dell XPS 13 9310 overheating

After 1 year os usage, it started overheating. Yes I'm a heavy user but it didn't do this before. Could this be related to the new ubuntu I installed? I'm on 21.10 coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA ...
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Laptop Overheating Yoga 9i Ubuntu 20.04

I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu on my laptop for work purposes. One thing that I have noticed is that the laptop is running extremely hot doing relatively low intensity work. I use a flashcard app ...
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Dell Latitude 5404 Rugged - Fans not spinning or able to control with pwmcontrol

I have a new-ish Dell Latitude 5404 Rugged which, up until about a week ago, worked perfectly fine. I opened up the case to check out the RAM situation for upgrading, but did not make any changes to ...
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How to completely revert the changes done by lm-sensors?

I installed lm-sensors couple of week ago, and accepted all the defaults. Soon i started to notice that my laptop (lenovo Ideapad 3 i7-10U) started to heat up more than usual. Also, even if i boot to ...
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My ubuntu partition runs at a hot temperature in my laptop (with Nvdia). How can I avoid it?

I'm using my Ubuntu partition as long as with my windows partition. Ubuntu 20.04 lts & Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz NVIDIA GeForce MX150 Important note: For ...
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Optimize thermal daemon

I just discovered thermald for preventing machines from overheating. I'd like some basic suggestions on how to modify the xml configuration file. Below is the one I have at /etc/thermald/thermal-conf....
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ThinkPad X1 Yoga G6: increased CPU usage and heating during suspend, how to find out from logs

In the last several weeks, all of a sudden, my ThinkPad X1 Yoga G6 started to overheat after suspend, in the bag. The fan is on full speed, and the laptop is extremely hot. On opening the screen, it ...
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Cannon Lake Platform Controller Hub overheats on Ubuntu 20.04

My Laptop (Alienware m15 - 2018) Platform Controller Hub (Cannon Lake PCH) is overheating on Ubuntu 20.04 (without running any app) unlike Microsoft windows 10, can you please tell me how can I solve ...
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Ubuntu restarting or freezing on closing lid && heating issues

I am working on Ubuntu 20.04 on ASUS ZenBook UX534FTC with 4GB GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU and have been using Ubuntu for more than a year now. Everything was working fine up until a week before but ...
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Setup Kubuntu for passive cooling due to a failing fan

The laptop in question is an HP laptop with AMD Ryzen 5500U. The fan is no longer working and I cannot take it for repairing before a week or two. So I still want the laptop to work without the fan ...
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