With towers and to some extent rack servers, I'd have no issue doing this, however, I fear laptops. On a side note, (should I do this) is there a vendor in town certified with Fujitsu and Toshiba laptop repair? --- JD wrote: > Simon Chatfield wrote: > > >Hi to the group, I've got an issue with linux on my > >laptop when it starts doing anything cpu intensive. > I > >get these two messages on my consoles as well as in > >/var/log/messages > > > >Apr 8 13:58:23 localhost kernel: CPU0: Temperature > >above threshold > >Apr 8 13:58:23 localhost kernel: CPU0: Running in > >modulated clock mode > > > >Shortly after these messages (seconds) the system > >hangs. So my question is how do I modify the > >temperature threshold to make it lower so it > modulates > >earlier and hopefully avoiding the hard hang. > > > >I would really love to do this without re-compiling > >the kernel, I'm currently running > > > >Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.10-1.770_FC2smp #1 > SMP > >Sat Feb 26 21:54:45 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 > GNU/Linux > > > >Thanks for any ideas! > > > >-Simon > > > > > > > Check your cpu fan, all fans on the motherboard, and > power supply fan. > It shouldn't be getting that hot. You might > consider installing an > extra fan or two > to get more air flow. > > JD > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss