<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;" mce_style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Simon Greenwood" <sfgreenwood@gmail.com><b></b><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>That is very similar to my problem: both Flash and Java apps caused exponential CPU usage. Shutting down everything would cause the machine to settle down but it wouldn't become stable until a full reboot. I would suggest checking to see if there's a BIOS update for the machine as I've just done that and it's seemed to resolve the heating issues that I had that apparently came from the Nvidia GPU. Also you don't mention the version and architecture of Ubuntu that you're using which might be useful to
know.<br></div></div></blockquote><br>I managed to update the bios last night. I've done a couple of tests after that and so far it looks good. I'll keep my fingers crossed. <br><br>Thanks to everyone who responded!<br><br>Rossen<br></div></body></html>