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MATE Sensors Applet 1.12.1

G'day, Just a simple question regarding which sensor (MATE sensor Applet 1.12.1) is which, I can't seem to find anything on it even on ASUS sites. (I'm running MATE 16.04 on an X550LA ASUS laptop ...
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My laptop's fan overrun. CPUs temperature is extremly high

My fans make loud noises all the times. CPUs reach 93 degrees at times. My Laptop is an HP pavilion g6-2300 bought in May 2013. It has Ubuntu 17.04 with an SSD. Last time I cleaned the internal parts ...
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CPU Temperature and Fan Control

I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 on my MSI GS63. With windows the thermals go high when I run a mode like Turbo but otherwise everything is fine. While running Ubuntu, the CPU temperature stays 60-...
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Change fan curve on 16.04

I need to know how to change the fan curve on my laptop, specifically making the fan go up when the CPU reaches 80 C rather than 95 C because I don't want the CPU getting damaged by high temperatures. ...
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Trying to use a TEMPer USB Thermometer with Ubuntu

I have a $12 USB stick that records temperatures (on the device itself). For details, see http://www.pcsensor.com/usb-thermometers/gold-temper.html I downloaded its software, and it works fine in ...
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bash script for display cpu info, ddr, temperature on Ubuntu Xenial showing only core 3 info

I'm running Ubuntu Xenial on a Orange Pi with the AllWinner H3 QuadCore Arm V7, and need to constantly monitor cpu frequency and temp, so I have this bash script to help me, but the issue is it only ...
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High PCH chip temperature while idle on MSI laptop. What should I do?

I have a brand new MSI GS63VR 7RF laptop, and just installed Ubuntu 16.04. Then I installed lm-sensors and ran yes | sensors-detect. Here is what I get when I use the 'sensors' command: pch_skylake-...
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Why can no pwm capable sensors be found?

I have just bought an Asus Zenbook UX410U. The fan is very loud and I would like to adjust the settings since the CPU cores are showing to have temperatures of around 37C. I've tried following these ...
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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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Ubuntu 16.04 sudden crash

I'm having trouble debugging a system crash I'm experiencing. Symptoms: Without warning, my monitors turn blank and the system does not respond to any input. The computer cannot be communicated with ...
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Kubuntu 17.04 throttles CPU clock speed, while ElementaryOS doesn't

I have an HP Spectre, on which I had previously installed ElementaryOS. I then recently installed Kubuntu 17.04 and everything works very well, except for one thing. On ElementaryOS the computer ...
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Unable to read Temperature on my Ryzen 5 1600X

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I want to get the Temperature of my Processor, a Ryzen 5 1600X. Sadly, everything I tried didn't work: Psensor, lm-sensor, xsensor - nothing. Can anyone recommend ...
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Why isn't one of my GPU cards showing in sensors?

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and have 6 GPU cards connected but only 5 are showing when I call sensors. I am using the amdgpu-pro 17.30-458935 drivers with Linux kernel 4.12.0-041200-generic. All 6 are ...
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Asus rampage II - NB Overheated. Should I worry about it?

I have an old, but cool MB Asus RAMPAGE Extreame II. Suddenly the system shut it down, then at boot up I got warning. Sensors got those numbers: poweruser@home:~$ sensors atk0110-acpi-0 ...
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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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Problem : Computer shutdown automatically without asking after ~15 minutes on

The computer is fresh new installation of Ubuntu 16.04 and the computer decides to halt after ~15 minutes without asking. The fan seems always work 100% and the computer is hot, when not much CPU ...
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How to increase the temperature when CPU scaling is triggered?

I notice that when running a stress test in Ubuntu desktop, my laptop begins the throttle when temperatures reach ~90C. I have noticed that when Ubuntu-server was installed on the same laptop, ...
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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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'acpi -t' command does not show thermal information

I am trying to get thermal information for my laptop using acpi -t command. Unfortunately, It doesn't show thermal information. Here is output of the command acpi -V. Battery 0: Unknown, 98% ...
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High CPU Usage When Opening Anything

I know that my CPU isn't the great, but it seems to be getting progressively worse. When opening an application the CPU % goes to 99% - 100%. Running a Java Application goes to about 40% and opening a ...
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How are hddtemp, udisks2 and libatasmart compared to each other?

I posted a problem of authentication for my hard drive at What does this authentication after login in LXDE mean? I found someone said the problem was caused by lm-sensors which uses udisks2 It's ...
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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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CPU temps reach 90+ *C while compiling OpenCV

So I got a used workstation specifically a Lenovo D20. It's configuration is: 2x Xeon X5670 (stock speed and cooler) 16 GB Registered ECC (4x 4GB) 300GB VelociRaptor 10k RPM HDD Nvidia Quadro 600 ...
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Laptop heating issue - going 50°C even when dealing with documents

I have a hp notebook with Intel® Core™ i3-5005U CPU @ 2.00GHz × 4 Intel® HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) 4GB RAM I mainly use it for reading pdfs and typing documents. But even under normal ...
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How to make Lubuntu's Temperature Monitor applet report the real temperatures?

Lubuntu's Temperature monitor always reports 40°C and never changes. Resource Monitor reports my CPU hovering between 80% and 98% for about 1.5 days now and Temperature Monitor hasn't changed even ...
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Laptop is too HOT with fresh Ubuntu 16.04 installation

I just made a new ubuntu 16 installation (from Linux mint) and following this guide I made a new partition in which I saved my home folder. Now it works but I get loads of errors at startup and the ...
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TLP showing different temperatures for different commands

I recently installed TLP on my ubuntu system. On typing sudo tlp-stat, the temperature is shown to be 58 degree Celsius, while typing tlp-stat --temp gives the temperature value as 51 degrees Celsius. ...
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Is there a temperature sensing utility for linux that will read a ryzen 1700 cpu?

Is there a temperature sensing utility for linux that will read a ryzen 1700 cpu? I have been looking for such a utility and cannot find one. Psensor and xsensor does not work, nor does lm-sensor. The ...
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Why is my Macbook Air6,1 (2013) with Lubuntu 16.04 getting so hot (temperature)?

I installed Lubuntu 16.04 on my Macbook Air6,1 i5 with Boot-ROM-Version MBA61.0099.B20 and SMC-Version 2.12f137. I used rEFInd for this. All is working well, but the laptop is getting much warmer ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 Doesn't Recognize Cooling Fan

I recently bought a cooling fan for my laptop (HP Probook 4320t) and installed it along with a new heat sink. I went into the bios screen to verify the installation of the fan and it works just fine. ...
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Laptop temperature is too high with minimal usage

I have Dell laptop model(inspiron 5110n) Core i7 processor with 2 graphic cards; one nvidea Gforce and another one by Intel I installed ubuntu 16.4 and without opening many programs, its temperature ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 running hotter than Windows 7?

I'm trying to setup Ubuntu as my new primary OS, and I really, really want to like it. There have been and still are quite a few issues I've had to resolve, but most have been easy enough to fix. ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 [email protected] CPU frequency capped at 0.8GHz (20% of max)

I have been running Ubuntu for a couple of months on this machine now, and all of a sudden the CPU's frequency is refusing to go any higher than 0.8GHz (20% of maximum) despite it running fine at 3.8-...
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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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Adaptive multi GPU fan control and overclocking software

Running a quad GTX 1080 system that is at full load 24/7. Back when it was using Windows, I was able to use EVGA PrecisionX to not only set a fan profile, but also configure the cards to automatically ...
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psensor on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I am running Ubuntu on an ASUS Maximus VIII Formula mobo. All has been running fine for several months. Running Psensor 1.1.5 Problems with monitoring temps and fan speeds. The most obvious issue ...
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Will core temperature related shutdowns always be logged?

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on a tiny device that the techs have placed on the very top of a server rack, it has become unresponsive 3 times in the last 4 days and with nothing logged saying it was ...
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Ubuntu extremely slow after some minutes of use - CPU speed way below the minimum

As the title says, my computer starts running extremely slow after using ubuntu for about half an hour. :~$ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: ...
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lm-sensors does not show up cpu temperature

I have an athlon 5370 CPU with Asrock AM1B-ITX board. How can I display CPU temperature with lm-sensors? This is what it shows when I run "sensors" command in terminal: radeon-pci-0008 ...
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Lenovo X1: Increasing temperature and jittery window movement

I am not sure where to post this, because I seem to actually have two problems, one related to my hardware, and one related to Ubuntu. I need help separating and isolating them, and also solving the ...
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How to update script (to put to sleep at given cpu temp) for 16.04 [duplicate]

This script worked in the past, then was updated for 14.04. #!/bin/bash while true; do val=$(sensors | awk '/temp1/ {print $2}') max="+75.0" if [[ "$val" > "$max" ]]; then dbus-...
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Unable to get lm-sensors to report my fan speeds for Asus Z97-WS

I've followed through the basic processes to detect my sensors (nct-6791 chip), yet all I get from sensors is as follows: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +105....
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Ultra High Temperature of Samsung SM951 After Rebooting From Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I have met a weird problem with Ubuntu and my SM951 NVMe SSD. My laptop is ThinkPad T460s with a 256G SM951 SSD installed, and I installed dual system(Windows 10 64bit Education and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) ...
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High Temperatures Compaq Presario C700, CPU Fan Speed problem

I've been having some problems with Fan speed with my Compaq Presario C700 Laptops (I've got 3 Laptops, all with the same problem). I install Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS but the CPU fan always works at the ...
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Is this temperature report normal for an Intel Quad Core / Radeon [closed]

The name of the temp1 indicator in lmsensor is radeon-pci-0100 temp1 and the chip is radeon. Is this temperature correct? Thanks in advance.
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How can I monitor and stress-test an overclocked Ubuntu system? [closed]

How would I go about stressing and monitoring temps of my Intel Core i7-4790k on Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu 16.04 on MacBook Pro 8.2 (2011) - Overheated CPU temperature

Just installed Ubuntu 16.04 on sluggish Macbook pro and regretted why i didnt do it earlier. I have setup everything i wanted except couple of issues (touchpad is funky at times) but my majore concern ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 cpu overheating

Hello dear Ubuntu users! I have recently got back to Ubuntu system and made a dual installation with Windows 10. However, I experience a severe CPU overheating problem, let me explain in details. ...
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What causes my fan to run? [closed]

I am using Ubuntu for daily use, and I don't run high level programs, which need more cpu or ram. The problem is that my fan stops running sometimes and then starts again and most of the time very hot ...
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Fancontrol on asus z97 board

I have been reading for last couple of days about fancontrol and I'm not able to get it to work. I've tried with lm-sensors and pwmconfig and bunch of another shenanigans but I'm stuck at: "no pwm ...
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