Overheating Laptop

[Keith Clark]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 09:10 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2008 08:08:55 am Keith Clark wrote:
> > This is driving me crazy!!!!!
> >
> > I have a Compaq R4000 laptop and it continually crashes due to
> > overheating.  If I do anything more than check my email, it is too much
> > for it and it shuts down.  Rebooting takes 30 minutes after that.
> >
> > Under Windows I never had one issue with heat, so it must be a driver
> > problem somewhere.
> >
> > Any ideas, or is it back to Windows for this laptop?
> 
> I don't understand this question as Windoze doesn't run any cooler.  In fact 
> it seems to raise the user's personal temperature!  It sure makes his 
> language different!  I'd suspect rather that your cooling fan for the laptop 
> has given up for some reason or the inlet and/or outlet is blocked.   I have 
> seen where people who wear clothing and use their laptops on their laps fill 
> their machines up with lint!  You could also run "system monitor" and find 
> out which process is using the most cpu time.       
> 
Nope, I just tried an experiment and loaded Windows XP.  No issues, the
fan slows right down and run quietly.  Under Linux it is always at full
blast.

I have no issues with another laptop running Linux so I assume that it
is a hardware driver that is just not working.

My laptop has even gone to a crawl.  My cpu is running at 1 GHz and I
cannot turn off the cpu throttler in Services.  Something is very, very
wrong here.  I start Services and it just errors out.
Keith