[Bug 31338] Kubuntu crashed due to overheating

[GreatBunzinni]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/31338

Comment:
I'm running a Acer Aspire 1524, which comes with a AMD Athlon64 3400+
and a NVidia GeForce FX Go 5700. The video card drivers are the ones
available in Kubuntu's default repositories. I was running America's
Army Linux version.

The game crashes about 5 to 10minutes into it but it also crashes in
non-graphics intensive scenes, like the medic training. The OS is
restarted with a error message claiming it was due to overheating.

It is the whole OS that crashes. When it crashes, first the computer
shuts down X, a text prompt appears for a moment (non-interactive) and
then the kernel error message pops up, warning about the high
temperatures.

The strange thing is that even yesterday my computer shut down due to
overheating while I was using Firefox (I had a lot of tabs and windows
opened) and I had kdeveloped open (I was compiling a C++ pet project of
mine). Therefore I believe that the problem isn't originated in AA but
in the OS itself. On the other hand, I do a lot of computer-intensive
work under windows (a lot of gaming, a lot of CAD work, some number
crunching, some development, burning and watching DVDs) and I never had
any problems involving overheating, which seems to rule out a possible
hardware problem.