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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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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HP Probook 4510s Overheating Issue

I have an HP Probook 4510s running Ubuntu 12.10 with open source Radeon drivers also I keep my computer clean and dust free. The following output of the sensors command is worrying me. ...
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HP Pavilion dv6-6b26sa shutdown thermal overheating

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. Since installing it, I can use it for about 30-45 minutes before it shuts down and on next reboot I get a warning about thermal overheating. I've tried ...
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Toshiba Laptop ubuntu 12.10 recently overheats and turns off

This especially happens when I watch a video with movie player or adobe flash, it uses more than 60% of my Core i5 cpu. (thats the least, it goes up after that) In windows when I watch the same ...
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Lenovo e420s overheating

I recently bought a Lenovo e420s and decided to install Ubuntu (first time). The interface is great, but the computer overheats horribly (the fan is on full all the time and the cpu temperature is ...
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Vaio SB - Turn off AMD Graphics Card?

I've got a Vaio SB with Hybrid Graphics (Intel Graphics Card and AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series). It is running in Dual-Boot with Windows 7 and has the latest BIOS-Update. For reason that the ...
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My Laptop Starts Heating Up Using Every Version Of Ubuntu

I Have A Dell XPSL502X , And I'm Facing Issues Using A Lot Of Hardware Resources And Not Making My Computer Melt Down, It has 8GB RAM Memory, 2GH i7 intel, and .... Why The Hell It's acting like ...
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Fan noise and overheating problem in Dell Inspiron N5110

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop and it works fine. But I can hear a continuous noise from the cooling system. What should I do to solve this problem?
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Heating problems in HP Pavilion g6 AMD Vision A10

I have istalled TLP and AMD propreitary drivers (AMD Catalyst). But still the heating problem persists. Installing the above 2 helped a little by cooling to 3-5 degrees. but still the cpu temp is ...
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High CPU temperature when using GNOME

I have ASUS Extensa 4220 laptop.If I install Kubuntu (any KDE-based), then the CPU temperature looks normal for a long time (now it is 74 degree Celsius). But when I install GNOME-based distros, then ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 overheating on S46CA

I bought a new notebook ASUS s46ca with Windows 8 preinstaled. And I noticed that the left side from the touchpad gets warm. In windows 8 it does not happen. I think that fan is running faster in ...
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Dell Studio 1749 i5 overheats with Ubuntu

I've Dell 1749 with Intel i5 430M, ATI 5000HD and 8GB Ram, so I thought that Ubuntu would work without problems but temperature is about 70-80c when I'm normally using (firefox, thunderbird). During ...
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Graphics drivers Ubuntu 12.04 - not recognized; overheating

I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I keep having terrible problems with overheating which I think are caused by problems with graphics chip drivers. I have a ASUS U80V laptop supposedly ...
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Temperature soars when glxspheres is off-screen

My laptop Samsung RF511 is overheating. I noticed this problem while playing minecraft: my computer would suddenly shut down. I checked /var/log/kern.log and sure enough the system reported ...
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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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samsung NP305V5A power adapter stops working at boot screen, shuts down unexpectedly while running

I am new to Ubuntu. I have installed wubi.exe for 12.04 LTS on my D: drive. Problem is when the login screen comes up at booting, my power adapter dies. If I unplug and plug it again immediately, it ...
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Hp G6-2005AX Ubuntu Installation problem

Hi guys I'm new here ( and to linux ). I wanted to install Ubuntu on my laptop. I tried using 12.10 and 12.04 distros, using the wubi installer (Note that my processor is AMD A8 therefore i used the ...
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Overheating HP dv6 laptop

Ever since I installed Ubuntu 12.10 I've been having overheating issues, and poor battery life. Jupiter indicates that my CPU is 45° while idle, and 65-75° while performing common tasks. My battery ...
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HP ProBook 5320 Overheating

System overheats everytime it uses some kind of Flash software, for example YouTube videos can't be watched without fan always on. No problem in Windows 7. Don't want to disable fan. Jupiter ...
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CPU heating up too much and locking the notebook [12.10 32bits]

I have an AMD A6-3400m. When installing ubuntu 12.10 the CPU gets too hot. When I go to see the cpu usage not see anything unusual. I think she is working at or above the specifications of the cpu. I ...
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ATI Radeon 4330M (X.org driver) overheats since upgrading to Xubuntu 12.10

since upgrading to Xubuntu 12.10 the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 chip in my Laptop (Acer 4810TG) overheats after about 5-15 minutes (depending on start-up temperature) of light use and shuts down the ...
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Hard Drive overheating on ubuntu, not on windows

I have a dual boot laptop, of lubuntu and windows 7. I really like ubuntu, and I rarely boot on to windows 7 now. However, one issue that I could not resolve, was that my hard drive heats up on every ...
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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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Overheating on my dell vostro due to ubuntu 12.04

I am using ubuntu 12.04 alongside windows 7 . While using ubuntu for 10-15 minutes i find my laptop quite hot while no such issue with windows 7 .i have tried jupiter but no difference . please help ...
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Dropbox very high CPU usage without any actual data transfer

The Dropbox process constantly clocks more than 50% CPU usage sometimes going up to the higher 80s and 90s. At the same time it does not even upload/download the files it is supposed to. The progress ...
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Poor ram management and overheating

I am only running a few programs, but ram usage is huge: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 5787 5599 188 0 4 ...
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Lenovo y500 CPU fan not working at all

I installed Ubuntu 13.04, everything works perfect so far except the cpu fan will not turn on. I installed thinkfan but still cannot get it working.
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HP dv6 7040tx overheating issue

As the title says, my laptop is a HP dv6 7040tx which has the following dual graphics cards: 1.Intel 4000 2.Nvidia 630M I went through some sites and found that both my graphics card are ...
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Give Compaq Presario cq62 More Control of Fan

I've been having overheating issues with Ubuntu 13.04 (and probably before as well, but I wasn't doing anything as intensive as I am now) and I'm noticing that the fan never kicks into "jet engine" ...
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Laptop heating, can't switch on Wi-Fi, can't to connect l2tp internet

Hello everyone I am Windows 8 user, sorry if my speech are poor or understandable, I'm from Russia. So..Yesterday I install my first Ubuntu 13.04 for a chance and I get 3 problem at once! First: my ...
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How can I stop my XUBUNTU heating up my Toshiba L600-01B

Well, guys, I will not have my first time seek for you all on this site unless my totally unbearable to the fan noise my XUBUNTU making. It's a time for me to stay with this stuff working for my ...
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Overheating: how can i monitor it?

i've got a pc desktop with AMD Athlon 5000+ and ATI Sapphire 3850. I think both of them have got overheating issue, because im always with a virtual machine (virtualbox) on. In fact, i don't think ...
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System Heating Up

I have samsung laptop i7. It has Nvidia 650M 2GB graphics card installed. When I turn on My pc it gets heated up within 15 minutes and stops working. How can I possibly remove this problem?
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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 Envy 6 Overheating

I've got some overheating issues with my HP Envy 6 1170sf. When I start my ultrabook, the minimal heat is 76°C if I do nothing. There is nothing to see in powertop, and Jupiter is set to "power ...
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bumblebee on Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell XPS L502X

today I tried to install bumblebee on Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell XPS L502X, because I am facing few problem like problem of overheating and fan that runs continuously. I followed the post ...
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Ubuntu on Asus K53tk laptop overheating

I installed latest Ubuntu distribution , and my laptop is overheating. The fan is always at like 60 % power , decreases 1 min then again it start to 60 %. It is not a laptop issue , isnt dirty with ...
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Thoshiba L655 Overheating on Ubuntu 12.04

I have a Thoshiba L655 laptop with intel core i5,radeon hd5650,3gb ram.The laptop is overheating while running ubuntu 12.04.I found that it may be due to the graphics driver and installed the ...
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Heat and Fan noise with Dell Vostro and 12.04

I recently bought a Dell Vostro 3560 Ci5 Laptop with the intention to install Ubuntu 12.04. The laptop came with Windows 8 pre-installed. Before installing Ubuntu from USB-drive I did in BIOS disable ...
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Sudden shutdowns with new installation of Ubuntu 64bit on a windows 7 64bit system

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04, I'm a complete noob. My system specs are: Dell xpx 15z--quad core 2.3ghz Ram running windows 7 home premium. I'm very interested in working with Ubuntu but on this ...
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Laptop overheats when running on Ubuntu 12.10

If I boot into windows, it runs fine again so I am sure its not a hardware problem. Could anyone help?
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HP 4540s overheating 12.04 LTS 32bit

I have a HP 4540s i7 laptop with ATI 2gb gpu. I have turnoff the switchable graphics from BIOS but still laptop is overheating any help will be greatly appreciated.
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LOADS of Issues with my HP Envy-4 Sleekbook

i'm not new to ubuntu but i am knee-deep in problems that i cannot find actual solutions for (even on this site), heck im just hoping they exist. I'm just going to organize this here. System: ...
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acer aspire one overheating

my friend asked me to install linux on her Acer Aspire One netbook, which I did (it was Linux Mint 14 xfce) unfortunately after the install i've started experiencing serious overheating (sensors ...
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Overheating problem - Dell n4030

My computer overheats too much under Ubuntu 12.04 (does not happen in Win 7). I read some threads and could be the VGA card, but I'm no tech or linux expert, so was hoping you could help me fix this ...
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Do you think I'd have my previous overheating problems (Acer TravelMate 5740G)

I had to stick with Windows for a short while because of school, but now I want to switch back to Linux. My only problem is that back on Ubuntu 12.04 my laptop would overheat massively, lack ...
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Why does my HP2000- 2116 TU notebook overheat?

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 on my HP 2000-2116 TU notebook. It is getting too hot soon after start up. The fan is working well. The temperature is increasing rapidly even if my laptop is idle. There are ...
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Laptop overheats while using Internet

YES I have figured out that my laptop overheats while using the internet via an Ethernet port through a broadband connection.Strange isn't it ? Well I need to know WHY ? . I have installed ATI ...
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CPU temperature higher under Ubuntu 12.10 than under Windows 7

The CPU temperature under Ubuntu 12.10 is significantly higher than under Windows 7 doing similar tasks. For example, the CPU temperature under Windows when watching flash videos is around 50-60 ...
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Dell Inspiron N4050 gets overheated when using firefox (Ubuntu 12.10)

I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 in a Dell Inspiron N4050 laptop and I noted that fan speed are not normal, and when I start to use Firefox the laptop starts to heat up and fans make a lot ...

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