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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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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OUCH! Laptop running SUPER HOT after 12.10 upgrade!
I was running 12.04 with Unity 3D for 6 months; my laptop ran almost silently and cool enough to hold on my lap with ~4 hours of battery life. I updated to 12.10 and switched to the Gnome 3 Shell. Now ...
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Very hot running with ubuntu
My laptop seems to get very hot when running with Ubuntu. The vents arent blocked and its got plenty of clear airflow when in use. Its noticeably hotter running ubuntu than it is running windows.
I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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overheating and shutdown problems when adobe flash runs?
I'm a new user of UBUNTU and using a Dell latitude D630. When I browse to site that have some flash animation (mostly advertisements), the temperature of cores increase dramatically (I check with ...
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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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Laptop overheats and turns off even though the fan runs
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell Studio 1747. The laptop fan is up and running as soon as the Ubuntu log on screen appears (even when the laptop is cold). The laptop ends up overheating and turning ...
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HP Pavilion g6 1190sm laptop has overheat/hibernation/graphics issues
Every time I reboot or shutdown my laptop, while the laptop is booting again I get a screen (before loading the OS) that HP discovered overheating and system went into hibernation. But the point is ...
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How do I debug an overheating problem?
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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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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Bumblebee Overheating
My laptop Samsung RF411(Geforce 540M) is overheating when i run optirun glxspheres the temperature of the core jumps to 97C and the GPU to 72C and after some minuties the computer shutdown.
An ...
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Has the Ubuntu overheating problem for Sony Vaio solved?
I used Sony Vaio VPCEA23en with graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5145 and have been using Ubuntu 11.10 and recently upgraded to 12.04 beta, however the problem of overheating (60-70) still persists.
I have ...
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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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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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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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CPU heat problems!
Hi I'm with Intel i7 Dell-laptop. I installed Ubuntu 12.04(64bit) from scratch. I realized the CPU temperature increased immediately(it's not difficult to detect temperature with this computer only by ...
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Fan always on and overheating problems on HP G62
I have a HP G62 with i5 processor, 4G Ram and ATI HD 5470. Started using Ubuntu 4 months ago, first was 11.10 and after 12.04. Everything worked perfectly until some weeks ago when my cpu fan became ...
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Fan Always ON (Laptop HP G62)
Recently, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my HP G62. But after I installed i noticed that my laptop fan always ON.
Kindly guide me on how this fix this issue. I'm new to this new lovely O.S.
Thanks!
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In 12.04 Over heating, can anyone help me?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32bit OS.
When I write on Iibreoffice or open two or three tabs in Mozilla Firefox or
open more than one programs or open software download center taking my notebook over ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Making Laptop super hot
Hello I am using Ubuntu 12.04 (dual boot with windows.)
The laptop is getting really hot and fan starts running wildly on Ubuntu even if no applications are open.Windows 7 is running absolutely ...
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Acer Aspire 4741G is overheating
My laptop is Acer Aspire 4741G:
CPU: Intel Core i5 460M(2,53GHz)
6 Gb RAM (Kingston DDR3 2gb+4gb)
320 Gb HDD
NVIDIA Ge Force GT 420M (1 Gb)
Tried Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.10, 12.04, here are the ...
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Samsung Series 5 overheating
I bought a Samsung Series 5 Ultra 2 weeks ago and installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I am experiencing problems with overheating. When streaming, watching a movie or when having several programms/actions ...
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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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Overheating problem on Ubuntu 13.04
I have recently upgraded Ubuntu to 13.04. Since this time I have overheating problems with CPU and graphic card. I also can't use fglrx drivers, because Ubuntu does not work properly, so I use the ...
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Notebook overheating
I'm asking this question because I've tried many tips to solve they don't work and it sounds like a non-fixed bug ubuntu.
My problem is with overheating.
I've recently installed Ubuntu Precise 12.04 ...
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Heat issues on 11.10 beta?
I am running an old Gateway laptop (7330gz) with 1 gig of RAM and 80 gig HDD, when I went to try 11.04 I found myself overheating frequently and ended up returning to 10.10.
Has anyone noticed any ...
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How do I fix an overheating problem with an HP ENVY-4 ultrabook?
I have bought a new HP ENVY-4 ultrabook. It has an i5 processor, pre-installed Windows 7 and 2GB Radeon graphics card. What happened was when I started using Ubuntu it showed overheating.
I ignored ...
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Overheating in HP Pavillion DM4-2102EO laptop
The features are
Intel Core i5
AMD Radeon
Temperatures are
acpiz 55°C
core 0 55°C
core 1 56°C
core 2 54°C
Radeon 66°C
Is that ok, what can I do? This did not happen on Windows 7 and the ...
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My battery drains really fast and my laptop gets really hot, What do I do?
I just installed Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv6-6c50ca, and I noticed that every time that I start my laptop with Ubuntu the fan runs really fast and the laptop produces a lot of heat. When I run ...
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Dell Inspiron heating problem [closed]
I have a Dell Inspiron N5110 running on ubuntu 12.04 (but this problem was the same on 11.10 and 11.04 i just hoped that 2 versions later it would resolve) The temperature is at 78 deg Celsius right ...
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overheating in laptop sony vaio VPCCB
i own a sony vaio laptop VPCCB. i have ubuntu 12.04 installed side-by-side with windows 7.
while using ubuntu the laptop gets heated a lot compared to windows and the fan keeps spinning continuosly. i ...
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Overheating on VAIO SB36
I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my VAIO SB36 and it overheats and the fan speed is at max. How should I fix it?
System Specs:
Intel® Core™ i5-2430M CPU
Unknown graphic detects! (it's both intel and ...
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How do I cool of my laptop? [closed]
I have a Compaq 8510p, and one of my temp sensors (4) is always reading at 75.0 c with lm-sensors, though acpi reads it at sensor 2. Either way, its at 75.0 c, and thats definitely not good. My ...
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How do I fix overheating and short battery life?
I am using a VAIO VPCEA23EN with an ATI Radeon HD 5145 graphics card. I have 3 GB RAM and a Core i3 2,26 GHz processor.
My laptop gets very hot very quickly. Battery life is also much shorter than ...
