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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:30:46 +0100
From:      Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X60 overheating with 7.1
Message-ID:  <20090114183046.GD85379@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
In-Reply-To: <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com>
References:  <111DA6F0-24FF-417C-B37B-25780F7ECFF6@neville-neil.com>

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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:37:15AM -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> I just got a Thinkpad X60 and have installed 7.1 STABLE on it.  =20
> Basically 7.1 and
> then updated to stable as of 10 Jan.  I have one major problem and =20
> that is
> overheating.  I cannot run even a long compile without the CPU going =20
> to 97C
> and shutting down.  Trying to do something like a buildkernel with -j =20
> anything other
> than 1 also fails.

I have an X60s, and I too experienced overheating issues in the past -
but they turned out to be caused by dust in the heating vent.

I carefully used a vacuum cleaner for cleaning out the dust from the
heating vent, and the temperature reported by ACPI dropped by
approx. 10 C.

Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org>

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