Re: CPU overheating -- hangs

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

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