high temp?

Robbie Foust rfoust at duke.edu
Sun Apr 10 22:20:42 UTC 2005


My machine is actually quite clean (the Thinkpad A31p).  It just gets 
really hot, unfortunately.  Next time I think I'll get something that 
runs a little cooler...

- Robbie

Robbie Foust
OIT-CASI
Duke University



Frank Sander wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>On Sunday 10 April 2005 12:33, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>tor, 07,.04.2005 kl. 22.27 -0400, skrev Gene Heskett:
>>>    
>>>
>>>>On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:45, Robbie Foust wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Apr  7 04:29:06 localhost kernel: Critical temperature reached
>>>>>(95 C), shutting down.
>>>>>Apr  7 04:29:06 localhost shutdown: shutting down for system halt
>>>>>
>>>>>Any suggestions?  This seems to happen nightly on my IBM Thinkpad
>>>>>A31p, fc4t1.  :-( (yes the fan is working :-)
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>Cron runs a bunch of housekeeping and maintainance utilities
>>>>starting at 4 AM.  Even if the fan is running, to hit 95C
>>>>indicates the unit needs more air, lots more air, or its full of
>>>>dust bunnies & needs an air hose taken to its internals.  95C is
>>>>very very hot indeed.
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>Just checked my logs since I've had at least one spurious shutdown a
>>>short while after booting. No cron jobs running and the laptop was
>>>feeling cooler than it does normally after a couple of hours' use.
>>>
>>>[root at localhost vex]# grep "Critical temp" /var/log/messages.*
>>>/var/log/messages.1:Apr  5 12:01:49 localhost kernel: Critical
>>>temperature reached (114 C), shutting down. /var/log/messages.1:Apr
>>> 5 12:01:49 localhost kernel: Critical temperature reached (52 C),
>>>shutting down. /var/log/messages.2:Apr  2 14:04:57 localhost
>>>kernel: Critical temperature reached (119 C), shutting down.
>>>/var/log/messages.2:Apr  2 14:04:58 localhost kernel: Critical
>>>temperature reached (24 C), shutting down. [root at localhost vex]#
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Kjartan
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I'll repeat, there is something seriously sick in that box, either in 
>>the monitoring, or in the cooling.  Back to the vendor, carrying the 
>>logs as evidence.  Since it reports 114C and 52C in the same exact 
>>second, followed by much later, a 119C and 24C only one second later, 
>>I'd suspect the monitoring itself is broken.
>>
>>  
>>
> Hi folks,
>
> some how on my AMD PC I figured the same problem. I was able to check 
> for real values and found the monitoring wrong.
> is that handled by lm-sensors?
> Any ideas how to over come?
>
> thanks
> Frank




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