Overheating Laptop

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 12:20 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 09:10 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:

> 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.

Run top or htop and see what is using up the cpu cycles.  If the fan is
running fast and the laptop still overheats, then the cpu is active. I
had this problem once with an IBM laptop when the fan was not quite up
to snuff to keep the cpu temp down.
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