Questions tagged [overheating]
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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Why does my laptop with AMD Radeon HD 76xx graphics get overheated when using Ubuntu?
I bought a new laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 7. I love working on Ubuntu and hence installed 12.04 on my laptop. I can work on Windows for 6 hours at a stretch and feel the laptop being ...
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How do I get fan control working?
I know there something called fancontrol, that enables you to control the speed of your system's ventilation. I'd like to let my fans spin a bit faster as my laptop is heating up very easilly. All ...
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Proprietary NVidia drivers with EFI on Mac, to prevent overheating
I have a dual-boot Mac OS X 10.8 and Kubuntu 12.10 64x on my white MacBook from mid-2010 installed. (Model identifier: MacBook7,1 . I have upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 8GB, if that matters.) I have ...
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How do I know my fan is working in Ubuntu
I just bought a brand new netbook and am worried the fan isn't working properly.
lm-sensors does not detect a fan, I can't hear a fan, and can't feel air blowing out of the fan area.
The netbook is ...
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CPU overheating on Ubuntu 16.04 (MSI GE40)
For the past 2 years I've been trying to definitively switch my laptop from Windows to Linux, but it's been a constant struggle. I have a MSI GE40 with Intel i7 4800MQ CPU.
I just installed (2017-03-...
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CPU hardware errors in Ubuntu 17.04
Can anyone explain to me what these error messages I got when I looked in dmesg? I am new to Ubuntu and to the Linux World.
[ 7.802351] CPU4: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (...
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Laptop running very hot with Ubuntu
My laptop seems to get very hot when running with Ubuntu. The vents aren't blocked and its got plenty of clear airflow when in use. It's noticeably hotter running Ubuntu than it is running Windows.
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16.04 ; power off discrete graphics (ATI/AMD)
On 12.04 I used to utilize this procedure, to power off my ATI graphics and prevent my system from overheating, it worked fine.
After installing 16.04, I've been trying everything I could find on the ...
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Why is Ubuntu Mate 16.04 runs hotter than Windows 7 on my Core2 and ATI Mobility Radeon 3xxx laptop?
Why is my Ubuntu Mate 16.04 runs hotter than my Windows 7 on my Core2 Penryn P8700 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 laptop?
I ran lm-sensors and found that the GPU temp consistently hits 63 and 64 C, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Shutdown after Overheating
I use a Thinkpad L13. Now, I have thermal issues especially under full load. When I run my Python program which utilizes all cores, my laptop shuts down soon.
What have I tried so far? I installed TLP ...
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Dell Inspiron N5010 overheating
I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Inspiron N5010. It gets too hot and is automatically shutdown. Can anybody suggest why this is happening and how to fix it?
The application is use the most often ...
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Set ATI/AMD GPU Fan speed with MESA Driver
My video card's (Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3650) temperature reaches 150°C in 5 minutes and then it stops working.
I installed fglrx and it works now. I can even play 3D games for 5-30 minutes.
If I use ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Skylake overheating
I recently bought a laptop boarding a skylake i7-6700hq processor, and I managed to install Ubuntu 16.04, however, I noticed that the laptop was overheating resulting to a very short battery life ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS overheating after upgrading from Ubuntu 19
I have just upgraded my machine from Ubuntu 19 to 20.04 LTS and it started overheating. Ubuntu 19 was working fine and the upgrade has not changed my configuration files (i.e. the turbo is still ...
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Nvidia Driver and Heating Problem
this is my first question at here, so please be gentle if do something wrong.
I have Ubuntu 14.04.03 LTS installed on my laptop. Also i have working dual boot to Windows 10 with UEFI activated.
My ...
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How do I debug an overheating problem on a Dell Inspiron 1564?
I have a problem with my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1564 Core i5 4GB Ram VGA ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 running Ubuntu 10.10 32bit). It shuts down abruptly without even a lag in the application I am ...
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ThrottleStop for Ubuntu?
I was able to install and dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 (both x64) just a while ago. As a newbie in Ubuntu, I'm still searching for ways to install my games because I'm planning to make Ubuntu ...
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Tweaks and configuration for Radeon Open Source driver
Can I tweak or configure Radeon driver to reduce overheating. My GPU gets 70-80C temp on start.
I don't want Catalyst by now because they are very slow for 2D.
using mobility hd4570, Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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Gnome 3 Ati Fan always on
Hello I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 installed. I have issues with the fan (I know that there are many threads about this but nothing has worked).
I am using Dell Studio XPS 1640 running ...
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Overheating problem Ubuntu 20.04
I updated from 18.04 to 20.04 a couple of weeks ago. With 18.04 the mean temperature was between 28 and 40° in light usage (YouTube, browsing etc.), now with 20.04 is always over 40°, also while in ...
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T61 Lenovo Laptop overheats - is there a fix?
my Lenovo Laptop is overheating since I installed Ubuntu 11.10.
Does anyone know of a fix/cause for this problem?
Thanks!
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Continous heat issues with notebooks
My HP ProBook I bought 2 years ago had to be sent in because of heat issues. It worked for a while, now it's getting too hot again. Just shuts itself down. I bought a new Notebook, a much cheaper and ...
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Fans aren't fullspeed while CPU is 100°, then CPU frequency decrease
Since I upgraded to from 12.04 to 16.04, my Dell XPS 13 (dev edition/Sputnik) laptop seems very slow (and less noisy) to me. Before upgrrading, under heavy load, I was able to hear the fans going full-...
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Overheating and battery draining
About a month ago, I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on Lenovo T430 removing the current OS Windows 7. First two - three weeks everything was working smoothly. After then, my laptop started to overheat and ...
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Why is my laptop running so hot with Ubuntu?
I have pretty decent laptop and should be more than enough for running Ubuntu for browsing and watching movies, but Ubuntu seems to be getting much hotter than it should, compared to Win 7. I'm on ...
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Set CPU temperature throttle threshold on Ubuntu/Thinkpad
I receive following error messages a couple of times per hour:
08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 2234)
08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU2: ...
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kidle_inject uses cpu power without apparent reason [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an i5-3250M, 6GB RAM Dell Inspiron laptop. I have been noticing all this time from my cpu usage monitor that there is high usage of my CPU (without using something ...
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Hard drive overheats when laptop running on AC power
Here is the deal. When using 12.04 laptop runs so cool and quiet but immediately I plug in, the temperature of the Hard drive starts to go up. (hitting 60•C in no time). However when I unplug the AC ...
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Laptop Overheats Running Ubuntu 14.04
I recently installed 14.04 on my Toshiba Satellite 305D.
It has an AMD Athlon X2 Duel-core and 2GB of ram with Radeon 3100. I know she's not much, but I'm a Peace Corps Volunteer living in West ...
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thinkfan control doesn't use the fan full potential when needed
I own a Thinkpad x201 and is overheating very fast because of the environmental temperature and eventually kills himself without notice (and it really grinds my gears).
Outside there are 34 degrees C ...
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Lenovo Y540 overheating issue
I have recently increased the size of my Ubuntu /home directory and reinstalled both Windows and Ubuntu on my Lenovo Legion Y540 laptop. Installation went smoothly, but since then I have noticed that ...
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How can I keep the cpu temp low?
I have an HP pavilion dv7, I'm using ubuntu 12.04 so the overheating problem with sandybridge cpu is a lot better.
However my laptop is still becoming too hot to keep on my legs.
The problem is that ...
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Is there a way to autostart CPULIMIT in order to reduce excessive CPU consumption
tracker-miner-f, tracker-store, tracker-extract and dropbox processes are killing my CPU, they make it run at over 100%, overheating my laptop.
I have installed CPULIMIT and it works great ...
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Heating issues and Fan sound on Dell Inspiron 3521 running Ubuntu 13.04
I have tried various solutions available online
1) Added pcie_aspm=force to /etc/default/grub
2) Since Jupiter is no longer available in 13.04 , installed tlp
But still fan is making lot of sound (...
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How to reduce the fan noise and how to increase battery life?
I have a brand new Sony Vaio S series laptop.(VPCSA2DGX) It came factory installed with Windows 7 professional Edition 64bit. Runs Intel core i5, 500 GB HDD , 4GB Ram. First I installed ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Kernel outputting this, should I worry? - [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:406e3 TIME 1498209621 SOCKET 0 APIC 3 microcode 9e
I have dmesg -Hw running trying to troubleshoot other problem (my ssd ocasionally going in read-only mode) and noticed this that happens few times per day, should I worry
[ +0,000010] mce: [Hardware ...
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Fan not running in Ubuntu 14.04
Recently i have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo G505s laptop along side win7.
It has AMD A8-5550M APU with Radeon HD Graphis and 8 Gb of ram.
But the problem is that i am unable to run ubuntu more ...
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Rapid Battery drainage and overheating
I bought a new Acer Swift 3 SF314-55G, the day before yesterday. I dual booted it with ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop version. ANd started using ubuntu itself. The laptop started heating up, even with ...
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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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My fan is not working, no active cooling system
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop and my fan is not working(with Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 it was the same).
Short summary of my system
Quanta TWH motherboard, Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM ...
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Overheating ubuntu 20.04
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my ASUS laptop, and I noticed an overheating of my laptop. on the other hand in the version ubuntu 19.04 I did not notice this problem, is there a solution
thank you
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My PC (lenovo ideapad z580) is overheating while using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS
My PC (Lenovo Ideapad z580) is overheating while running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS.
$ uname -a
Linux Mahadev 4.4.0-72-generic #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:07:41 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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HP Pavilion G6 1209 temperature higher than usual and fan working in 11.10
Installing Ubuntu on this new machine i had various problems, so I asked around ask ubuntu for a solution. This is the latest one! :D
When I start the pc it shows the temperature around 50-55. When I ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 used too much processor after latest updatest
after updating ubuntu 14.04 it uses 25-50% of my processor continuously causing my laptop turnoff automatically by overheating. i have no problem before the updates. graphic driver is not a problem, i ...
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Overheating laptop (HP pavilion G6 with AMD 8) ubuntu 13.04
I am barely running Ubuntu now because the fan is blowing like crazy, it's blowing hot air and I estimate the temprature around 90 C / 194 F. When I run windows my laptop isn't overheating and the fan ...
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Macbook 8.1 overheating
I have a macbook 8.1 with ubuntu 12.04 installed. But my cpu is getting very hot.
On Mac my CPU is 50-60°C warm. But on ubuntu my mac is getting very hot and is by about 60°C but with min 3000rpm ...
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Noisy fan on Ubuntu 14 04 ATI Radeon 7000 series [closed]
I have Ubuntu 14 04 with ATI Radeon 7000. The fan is making much noise and the laptop is heating. A similar question has been asked here and its solution is not working for me. I am getting a bug when ...
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High CPU usage, even without a real reason
it's days that the fan and especially the processor of my computer are perennially 100% even if there is no real reason.
This is the situation
Can someone help me?
This is htop with Chrome close
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What can I do to prevent Ubuntu from overheating my Notebook?
I have an easynote tj65 (2.1 ghz dual core with Geforce GT240M) running Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 in dual-boot-mode.
While Windows 7 doesn't have any comparable issues, Ubuntu is making my notebook ...
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How can I easily control CPU speed on Ubuntu?
I would like to know how to change (lower, in my case) CPU speed easily to adjust my needs. I have done research on the internet and it appears the same answers come back... "there is no need to lower ...
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