Help: Machine says it's running hot

[Mike McCarty]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> 
>> At 9:41 AM -0500 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> >I got messages saying that the machine was running hot on several
>> >occasions. The first time, I shut down the machine, check thed the
>> >temp in the BIOS (68 degrees C) and then proceeded to clean out the
>> >CPU fan, and dusted teh rest of the machine.
>> >
>> >The second time I just restarted to the BIOS to check the temp again
>> >myself: 74 degrees C Both these temps are supposed to be within the
>> >okay range of my Intel Celeron running at 2.8 GHz.
>> >
>> >Please advise on what could be causing this, the message (pasted
>> >below) are very unsettling.
>> >
>> >======================================================
>> >Oct 25 01:38:00 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>> >Oct 25 01:38:00 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
>> >Oct 25 01:38:03 Watson ntpd[2569]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
>> >Oct 25 01:38:05 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>> >Oct 25 01:38:05 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
>> >Oct 25 01:38:10 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>> >Oct 25 01:38:10 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
>> >Oct 25 01:38:15 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>> >Oct 25 01:38:15 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
>> >Oct 25 01:38:20 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
>> >Oct 25 01:38:25 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>> >======================================================
>>
>> What is the threshold set to?
>> -- 
> 
> 
> I do not know, and do not know how to find out.
> 
> What is the command, if you know?
> 

$ apropos sensors
libsensors           (3)  - publically accessible functions provided by 
the sensors library
sensors              (1)  - printing sensors information
sensors-detect       (8)  - detect hardware monitoring chips
sensors.conf [sensors] (5)  - libsensors configuration file

$ locate sensors.conf
/etc/sensors.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/sensors.conf.5.gz

$ ls -l /etc/sensors.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 57594 Apr 13  2004 /etc/sensors.conf

$ vi /etc/sensors.conf

Mike
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