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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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(Advanced) Ubuntu AMD GPU issue (possible overheating/misconfigured sensors/bad driver)

This is my first post. I will try to give as much information about the issue as possible. The post turned out to be a little long, but it is quite detailed. System specs: Processor: i5-4690k Gpu: ...
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How to lower the critical temperature of the CPU, so thermal throttling starts earlier

I have an old Laptop with a broken heat sink, which leads the CPU to heat up to 80°C during small workloads, and briefly reaches 100°C during higher workloads (e.g. during system updates and compiling ...
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Cannot control fan-speed on Acer predator Helios 300

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04(but there was same problem on 16.04). I cannot control the fan speed. Ubuntu runs with same fan speed as that when logged out of windows(dual-boot). I have tried sensors-detect ...
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Laptop Heating in ubuntu , no issue in windows what to do?

I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside windows in msi GS75 Stealth-243(Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz × 12, Intel® UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2)). I'm experiencing unusual heating issues when I'm ...
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Fan RPM way too high when playing videos, or using webcam

I want to make sure that my machine is behaving normally. OS = Ubuntu 19.04 64-bit Laptop = Dell Inspirion 13 7000 (model number corrected) Memory = 7.5 GB Processor = Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ ...
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What is the difference between coretemp-isa-0000 and "Virtual" temperatures?

I notice when I run thinkfan on my laptop, it has no problem running with just the coretemp sensors, but wont run with the virtual sensors. Do I need to include the virtual sensors in my thinkfan....
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Is it possible to bring these chip temperatures down?

Today I installed kubuntu 18.04 on my laptop, and I'm having some problems with it. One of the problems is the high temperature of two chips. When running the command sensors in the terminal I get the ...
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Ubuntu overheating laptop

I've had both Ubuntu 14.04 and now 15.10 installed on my laptop and both have caused overheating issues with my laptop. Temperature reach above 80 degrees celsius within the first 20 minutes of very ...
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My laptop is seriously overheating

I installed Ubuntu 15.04 alongside Windows 7 on my laptop about an hour ago, and within two minutes of running Ubuntu (both during the Live CD and post-install), my CPU temperatures reach 100°C. In ...
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How to reduce CPU temperature ?

I have Ubuntu 14.04 and an HP Pavilion laptop. When running Windows 7 the CPU is slightly hot but not much. But running Ubuntu however, it is considerably hotter. I installed tlp and my GFX card ...
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Very High CPU usage on HP dv7 Laptop when IDLE

I'm pretty new to Linux computing. So I finally thought of giving Ubuntu a try, by dualbooting it with Windows 8 on my hp dv7-6006tx laptop. Laptop Specs But after installation, I immediately ...
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Laptop freezing after Ubuntu kernel 5.11.0-34-generic

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th gen with Ubuntu 20.04 installed. The current kernel version installed is 5.11.0-34-generic. Few days ago, my laptop froze completely and after a forced shutdown ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS machine heating

I am Using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Machine with dual booting I have dual-booted both windows 10 & ubuntu 20.04 in the SSD (250GB). I have noticed that while using ubuntu fan speed is very high & ...
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Nvidia proprietary driver causing overheat

I've a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 lts and having nvidia mx150 as my GPU. When I watch an HD video or do some GPU dedicated tasks like animation or deep learning, I see my core temperatures rising ...
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hand control to "thinkfan"

I'm struggling to get thinkfan set up and working on my lenovo x250. I have it installed, but I'm not convinced it is controlling the fan speed. If I run: $ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan in the Terminal, I ...
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Core temperature above threshold but sensors says temperatures are far way from critical

I own an XPS 9370 and often find the following in my dmesg [40705.581409] mce: CPU5: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 950) [40705.581410] mce: CPU1: Core ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 not thermal throttling

I have a asus laptop (X705UDR), and installed ubuntu on it. However, I have some trouble with overheating under load, and after some investigation I noticed that, even when core temps reach 90+ ...
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How do I turn the fan on?

I have a fairly oldish system76 laptop and the fan does not turn on automatically any longer, so the CPU overheats and the laptop powers off all the time. I opened it and cleaned it from dust. I also ...
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At what point should I worry about high temperatures?

I just got a new system76 galago pro. It's nice. It has 8 threads and lots of memory. I do a lot of multicore computing in R, and a lot of my jobs are borderline between something that I'd do ...
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Thinkpad T420 laptops overheating, but only when on AC power

I maintain two ThinkPad T420 laptops running Ubuntu 16.04 which have both started having overheating issues within the last few weeks. As both computers ran just great for many months before this, I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 freezes frequently

Hi I am quite new to ubuntu. I am using ubuntu 16.04 in dual boot. My laptop is ASUS bought a little bit more than 3 years ago, with: Memory: 3.7GiB Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz × 4 ...
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How to solve laptop GPU overheating problem in Ubuntu16.04

Module Thinkpad W540. Spec: intel core i7 4800mq, Nvidia Quadra K2100M. Problem: I tried fresh installs of Ubuntu16.04, Kubuntu16.04, Ubuntu Gnome 16.04, and all of them suffer from the problem of ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 is not providing working suspend or hibernate feature

I previously used 14.04 and i used to suspend when ever i am done and need to resume my task later . That shuts my machine down(except the LED indicator) which didn't consume power and no heating so i ...
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How to Control FanSpeed on hp envy 15

my computer is prone to over-heating and so I'm trying to control the fan speeds. I've researched a little and I'm blocked How to control fan speed? and then installed lm-sensorsand fan control. I'm ...
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T430 i5 overheating

Heavy overheating - How to stop? I have a ThinkPad T430 running a Intel® Core™ i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz × 4 (IvyBridge) on Ubuntu 14.10. I reinstalled Ubuntu a few weeks ago. While I always thought ...
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How to check if my graphic card is muxless?

How can I check whether my Graphic Card is "muxed" or "muxless"? My graphic card is an AMD HD 8730M, and on my Dell Inspiron 15r 5521 I've also got an Intel HD 4000. But when I use the lspci command ...
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HP Pavilion g6 - 64 bit high temperature

I have ubuntu 12.04 and my temperatures are constantly over 55°C I've tried jupiter power saving mode without results. I've tried installing ATI proprietary drivers but there wasn't a significant ...
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CPU overheating on a Sony Vaio VPCEA15FG

I have installed Ubuntu besides Windows7 on my laptop (Vaio Sony VPCEA15FG). I can work with Windows for several hours without any problem; but as soon as I log into Ubuntu, my CPU overheats to 80C ...
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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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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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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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Ubuntu Power Optimisation Problem. CPU Heated everytime, Fans are running all time

I have recently dual boot from windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. My Laptop Specifications: Lenovo Ideapad L340, i7 9750H, Nvidia 1650 Graphics Card. Problems: CPU is heated every time and fans are on all ...
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Heating and Fan control issues on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

My Alienware m15 R5 has an overheating problem because the fans are not working. Here is the output from sudo pwmconfig: # pwmconfig version 3.6.0 This program will search your sensors for pulse width ...
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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 sudden random turn off

I'm on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 with a LENOVO ThinkPad L13 Yoga. Since a few days ago, Ubuntu randomly suddenly turns off. No Shut down just an immediate turn off. It looks like a power loss. It sometimes ...
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Ubuntu on ThinkPad: fan not working and "critical temp reached"

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on ThinkPad L14 Gen 2 (intel). It crashes almost every time compiling a TeX document with more than 20 images. The last few lines of log from journalctl -b -1 -e give me: &...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS over heating

I have dual booted both the windows 10 & ubuntu 20.04 in the SSD (512GB). I have noticed that while using ubuntu fan speed is very high & system gets over heat even when few software are ...
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V-Sync and weird behavior (causing overheating)

In some game (Eve Online), VSync is somewhat broken on Ubuntu. Well. Maybe it is coming from the game itself, but some things tell me I can configure Ubuntu to get it work. How did I find out about ...
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Do both thermald and acpi_thermal_pm do thermal management? Is one recommended over the other?

I heard that thermald is useful to prevent overheating, so I installed it on my system (running 20.04 LTS). When I run ps auxc | grep -i therm, I see the following: root 166 0.0 0.0 0 ...
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"core temperature above threshold, CPU clock throttled" causing Dell G7 laptop to freeze intermittently on 20.04

I have a Dell G7 15 7590 laptop. I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. Now one to two times a day the computer freezes. Sometimes it comes back and sometimes I think a full restart is required. cat /...
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Ideapad 330-15IKB Ubuntu 18.04 overheat and battery problems

we have about 50 ideapad 330-15IKB with ubuntu 18.04 lts installed ... we face multiproblems : 1- overheat a lot even if nothing working on it 2- battery drops quickly caused of overheat 3- system ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 Overheating on Idle

I recently installed ubuntu 19.04 on my laptop (Dell G7 7590). I have faced severe overheating issues. My laptop hits around 71 degrees centigrade even on idle. I've tried installing TLP, powertop, ...
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Ubuntu randomly reboots on Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1

I've been having several instances of Ubuntu randomly rebooting my laptop with not trace of an error message or clue to a reason why. I've checked the system logs but frankly I'm too new to this to ...
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Are my coretemp "high" and "crit" levels BOTH supposed to be at 100.0°C?

My friend said everything is fine, but I just think those levels look a bit weird. Here is the output of sensors: coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +36.0°C (high = +100.0°C, ...
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Bad temperature management on X1 Yoga

On my new ThinkPad X1 Yoga running Ubuntu 18.04 with thermald and TLP I noticed very annoying behaviour by the temperature management software: The computer runs hot due to intensive load. The CPUs ...
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ASUS Fan Control

First, I am well aware of the numerous other posts, all of which I have read through many times, trying each of their solutions and variants of it, so please do not flag as duplicate or post links to ...
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Mac Pro 6,1 is overheating under Ubuntu 16.04

This MacPro computer is used as a server and never shutdown. Sometimes, after some hard cpu intensive usage, or the sun goes on the computer, the MacPro is crashing. Thus I moved it far from the sun....
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My fan has become crazy!

I just got a serious problem! Today when I turned on my laptop, the fan (I suppose is the CPU or GPU fan) went crazy! I hear the sound like it is spinning at 4000/5000 rpm. The other strange things is ...
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set fan speed on ubuntu 16.04 laptop hp elitebook 2540p

my laptop has some issue with the fan it does not work properly, on windows i used hwinfo 32 to control it manually and set its speeed but it seems impossible on ubuntu. I have been searching for ...
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Restart fan in Ubuntu 14.04 on Thinkpad

The fan on my rather old (>5 years) Thinkpad sometimes stops working. Running the sensors command shows: thinkpad-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter fan1: 65535 RPM i.e. the number of revs goes ...
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What is the optimal must-gather for laptop self-shutdown troubleshooting (likely due to overheating)

Premise I have recently upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10. I have the following video cards and processor (on a laptop): 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04) 01:00.0 ...
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