Laptop CPU freezes

[Pastor JW]

On Sunday 21 September 2008 6:39:06 am 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?

Back in July I think it was there was a discussion on how to put a temp applet 
in your system tray.  It uses KSysGuard and works well.  Only drawback is 
that it reads out in Celsius.  Look for the subject "temp applet" in the 
archives.