Laptop CPU freezes

[Willy K. Hamra]

Larry Hartman wrote:
> My dv8000 with AMD Turion, 2GB memory, experienced multiple hard lockups 
> yesterday, can't seem to figure out the cause.  Log files that I know to look 
> at are clean.
> 
> I was running Firefox 3.0 and Krusader at the time...have a LAMP, wikimedia 
> server running as well. I have been running these constantly for about 9 
> months, so do not believe they are the culprit.
> 
> My gut feeling tells me to look at CPU temperature, but do not know the 
> tools/configuration for this.  Any help?
> 
> 
> Larry
> 

you can try installing ksensors, which is a GUI frontend for lm-sensors.
it can provide with many info about the computer, including
temperatures. fan speeds, CPU loads, memory info, swap info and many
other things.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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