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gbo

Member

From: EU

Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 1

asus f8sa overheating problems

Hello everyone!

I recently started using Arch Linux and think it's a really nice distro.

I installed it on my old Asus laptop and experience some problems with it: it's running really hot, although the fans seem to run at full speed (very loud) and there are no programmes running except for a browser. The tempereture goes as high as 90C. The CPU is used at ca. 10...15%

Do you have any advices how to resolve the issue?

This is the system info:

CPU:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
GPU:
ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
Audio:
HDA Intel (ALC660-VD Digital)
Audio:
HDA Intel (Si3054 Modem)
Audio:
ALSA Timer Device
Audio:
HDA Intel (ALC660-VD Analog)
Audio:
HDA Intel(HDA Intel ALSA hardware specific Device)
Audio:
HDA Intel
Network:
Loopback device Interface
Network:
RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
Network:
PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection

I run a basic 64bit setup with KDE 4.8 ontop of it...

Thank you))

Last edited by gbo (2012-02-13 18:07:04)

zergoid99

Member

Registered: 2012-02-08

Posts: 13

Re: asus f8sa overheating problems

I had a problem with ATI overheating when using open source drivers, so I installed Catalyst and it solved the issue.
90C is a bit too much, though.

Lord_Lizard

Member

From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2012-05-28

Posts: 4

Re: asus f8sa overheating problems

I'm kernel 3.11 and ATI Radeon card with open drivers installed and I got over 60C reading with lm-sensors.

I add this to the kernel parameters line in grub:

 radeon.dpm=1 

and I set conservative governor in laptop-mode-tools.

After that I got below 50C, some times 52.

I hope it helps.

Last edited by Lord_Lizard (2013-10-07 01:50:26)