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sensors acpitz-virtual-0 temp3 after standby at 100.0°C

"sensors" will report 100.0°C on acpitz temp3 after standby mode. This temperature does not change any more. All other temperatures of acpitz module (and coretemp) will show suitable values and will ...
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Normal Temperature of Dell Inspiron N4050

My laptop is Dell Inspiron N4050. Now I am using Jupiter. While using Ubuntu it shows the CPU temperature is between 45°C - 65°C. Is it okay for my laptop? Mine CPU temperature is between 48°C-55°C ...
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Netbook Fan speed Lenovo x130e

After using Ubuntu 13.04 for about a week I have noticed that my netbook's fan speed seems to be moving faster that it should. In windows I would have moments where the fan would spin slow or shut ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - High temperature [duplicate]

I've always used Ubuntu. I installed the version (13.04) and I have a problem: the CPU's temperature is high also in normal condition. This is the response of lm-sensors: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: ...
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AMD proprietary driver doesn't let me see the temperature

I had a problem with higher GPU temperature in Ubuntu than in Windows, so i tried installing the proprietary driver for AMD mobility radeon HD 5650. Now I can't see the temperature. Does this mean ...
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Problems with temperature after 13.04 update! [duplicate]

Until the 13.04 update I was using the 12.10 version of Ubuntu, (I have a HP pavilion notebook, 6 GB RAM, i5, ati radeon hd series, ubuntu 64 bit), and I was having no problems with temperature ...
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High CPU Temperature and fan speed noise [duplicate]

I am using Ubuntu 13.04. In which I am getting High CPU temperature and fan speed from beginning of the system. Temperature remain > 62°C. I am using Jupitar but it's not helping in case of mine. ...
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Fan speed in ubuntu: pwmconfig no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

I followed this guide about how to control fan speed in Ubuntu, but it doesn't work with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r). I installed lm-sensors and fancontrol packages. Then I configured lm-sensors by ...
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Laptop overheating

I have a Toshiba L500-128 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit OS, the only problem I have is the overheating of my CPU, with temperatures from 70 to 90 C. I think that this is related to the usage of the ...
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fglrx vs open drivers - informations and temperature control

I have ubuntu 12.04.2 and kde. I have fglrx 13.1 latest drivers. Sometimes I have freezes at starup, it's very annoying, and I discovered it's bug : http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691 So maybe ...
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Sensors(1) prints only GPU temperature

That's output of sensors $ sensors nouveau-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +59.0°C (high = +100.0°C, crit = +110.0°C) I'm worried if this is really GPU temperature? How to obtain CPU ...
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How to reduce high GPU temperature in ubuntu 12.04/12.10/13.04

I've been having this problem since maybe 4, 5 months ago. I've search in the forums and tried every given solution. Please help. I have an ASUS G73JH with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 Graphic Card. ...
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Fan speed & temp

When using Windows the fan speed and temp works fine, the fan run fast, and temp get higher only when playing a very high graphics games. Now on ubuntu , i can hear the fan noise, and i can feel my ...
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High temperatures in ubuntu 12.10 (64)

To the experienced, I think reach dangerous temperatures in Laptop with Ubuntu. The version is 12.10 and the extras just installed lm-sensors and java. root @ ubuntu :/ home / ricardo # sensors ...
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Difference between core temp and cpu temp

I installed a sensor reporting utility on my Ubuntu machine (a desktop machine) and it reports drastically different temperatures for the ACPI CPU reading and the ISA Core 0/Core 1 reading. The ACPI ...
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Increased CPU temp compared to Windows 7

I have a Lenovo Z570 Thinkpad with windows 7. One of my friends suggested that a 4GB RAM is much more effective when working on Linux than on Windows, so I searched a lot and installed Ubuntu ...
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USB fan controller

I'd like to control the speed of 3 fans: CPU fan (3-pin fan connector; connected to mainboard) 2x chassis fan (3-pin fan connector; connected to power supply via molex adapter) Unfortunately, it ...
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HP Coolsense for Ubuntu?

I have an HP Pavilion M6-1045dx running Ubuntu 12.10, but after ten minutes it feels hot. Is there any HP cool-sense for Ubuntu?
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What is my CPU Temperature

to get my CPU temperatures i first typed sudo sensors-detect and confirmed everything with yes. Then i typed sudo service module-init-tools restart Now this is the output of sudo sensors, but which ...
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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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How to lower the HDD temperature

I have 4 hard disk drives that have temperatures which go beyond the recommended 50 degrees (Celsius). (I have several Samsung Spinpoint F3 which are 1Tb each and they do have good temps, between 32 ...
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How to detect processor correct temperature in conky

I am using conky&conkyforecast to have a nice widget containing some system information and weather data. But I can see that the temperature that conky shows is different than the one I get ...
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Dell Studio 15, Turnoff after suspend due to overheat, and does not turnon the fan as well [closed]

I am new to Ubuntu and linux as well, the thing is... I got strange problem with my laptop, I am not sure is the problem with my hardware or the os I got: Dell Studio 15 (ATI Graphics Card) with ...
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Acer Aspire One 725 Temperature

I just got my AO725 and I have sucessfully installed Xubuntu 12.10. It's all okay except the temperature which is pretty high if I look to some reviews on the web - it's about 70 to 85° C. I don't ...
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Dell Inspiron 15R [Special Edition] fan speed problem

I have a Dell Inspiron 15R SE (click here for details). I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 via Wubi on it. The OS works perfectly fine, but there are some issues: The fan speed is so high that it is ...
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Correct sensor location to use for Temperature Monitor in lxpanel?

The Temperature Monitor in lxpanel (I'm using Lubuntu 12.10) is automatically detecting one of my sensors but I would like to give it an alternate one. Here is the output of sensors: Adapter: ...
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lm-sensor and cpu temperatures

I am on ubuntu Precise Pangolin. The processor is Intel i3. a desktop. I installed lm-sensors and below is the report sensors gave coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +30.0°C ...
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CPU Temperature above normal (92 C)

I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and after running it on my laptop for few hours I decided to check the CPU temperature with acpi -t and it said 92 degrees Celsius When I ran windows 7, it always ...
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CPU Fan not working on acer 4755G i3 ubuntu 12.10

Hope you can help me, I'm new to ubuntu and install this 12.10 version on my acer laptop. The problem is I always got high temperature and maybe because my CPU fan is not working. Tried to install ...
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Power USB at certain CPU temperature

I have an unusual server set-up. Basically, I have a combination of salvaged parts from 3 Powerbook G4s running a non-graphical distribution of lubuntu. Problem is, I'm better with hardware than the ...
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which is a normal temperature for a laptop

i have a samsung series 5 my temperature is around 77-80°c when i am playing, and 48-54 on normal use it laptop don´t have a month and i am not sure if it is normal (it is my first laptop) Intel® ...
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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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Control fan speed

My laptop works fine in Ubuntu but temperatures are higher than the rare cases I use Windows. If there a way to tell Ubuntu to turn the fan on earlier? I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 on a Toshiba R830 ...
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ubuntu 12.10 very high temprature on idle

I upgraded my laptop to ubuntu 12.10 and my laptop temperature went extremely high. It's over 80 degrees Celcius on idle and it can easily go to 87C with just a little browsing. On 90C my laptop shuts ...
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Fan running continously on HP Pavillion G6 notebook with 12.04.1 LTS, help please?

Fan is running continously on my HP Pavillion G6 notebook with 12.04.1 LTS. My system specifications are:- Ram: 6Gb Graphics Card:- 1 GB (AMD Raedon 64XX). HDD: 540 GB. Please find a list of ...
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Toshiba “eco mode” equivalent

I have a Toshiba Satellite R830 dual-boot Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7. On Windows, when I turn "eco mode" on, the fan is much more silent and temperatures are considerably lower. On Ubuntu, eco mode ...
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CPU high temperature 12.10 while high CPU usage

I have a problem with high temperature of processor while running applications that use all 8 cores of processor with load of close to 100% during the all running time. And the running time for those ...
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Temperature in Gnome 3 Panel

I'm looking for a way to show my CPU-temperature in the GNOME 3 Panel in Ubuntu 10.10. I found a Screen on extensions.gnome.org : Is there an applet or sth. like that? Thank you!
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Ubuntu 12.10 Laptop temperature

I'm using a laptop with a dedicated graphics card with Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual boot. Windows 7 Idle Temperature The Windows 7 idle temperature for CPU is 51°C average, and GPU is 46-48.5°C. ...
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Lenovo z470 getting hot, after 12.04 install

When I was using Windows 7 my notebook temperature was very good, it stayed very cool. After I installed 12.04, my notebook base is hot all the time, I cannot even put my hands on it for a long time. ...
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High temperature on my laptop with Radeon Mobility HD4670

As almost everyone here, I guess, in these days I downloaded Quantal Quetzal to give it a try. However I noticed that my laptop runs fairly hot with cooling fans almost always on, even sitting in the ...
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Modify thermal trip points

Can you please instruct me on how to modify critical trip points. My computer keeps shutting down and my sensors are telling me that I am running hot when utilizing demanding programs. I am utilizing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 and KDE, graphical temperature monitor for GPU

I have ubuntu 12.04 and KDE. I already installed "lm-sensors", "hardware sensors indicator" and "Psensors" but none works well for me. I also know a couple of commands to find gpu temperature on ...
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How to monitor laptop temperature? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I get the CPU temperature? No ACPI support for my PC, what can I do? After installing lm-sensors and runing sudo sensors-detect i got the message: Sorry, no ...
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Downclock CPU reaching critical temperature

I have an HP tx1250 laptop. It always had serious overheating problems and although usually it runs fine I'm now running a continuous test for my dissertation, this brings the CPU temp close to the ...
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Lowering GPU temperature on Radeon 6850 with open source driver

I read and tried this and it doesn't work for me! when I type echo "mid" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile I see what this value really changed (needs the chmod was applied before, ...
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How can I lower the CPU temperature?

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my EeePC 1015PX and I've noticed that the CPU temperature does not go below 60ºC (70 is usual). Looking at powertop it seems the 2 cores (Atom N570) are idle most of ...
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“sensors” showing temps like 127°C

When I run "sensors" from terminal one of the readings is really really high: radeon-pci-0200 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +127.5°C Obviously it's for the Graphics card but I doubt it's so ...
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How do I fix my AMD/ATI GPU drivers (temp is 83 C at idle)?

I am using a Sager laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 6970M 256bit w/2GB GDDR5 and an Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM. When I boot to Ubuntu 12 the CPU is fine and idles at a good temperature, but the GPU is in the ...
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Limit CPU usage in terms of temperature

I run distributed computing projects, which typically want to use 100% of the CPU. How do I limit the CPU usage in terms of temperature instead of percent usage? Also, what is the maximum safe ...

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