Asus X42JY laptop overheating & fan spins fast

mesina · 2014-05-27 19:12:14

I have read the wiki pages about cpufreq and other recommendations, also this forum topics.
but i could'nt fix it and still cpu temp is increasing and fan spin faster...

lm-sensor does not detect so many item for my laptop :

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:       +38.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2:       +45.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

the cpupower output :

cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
  CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
  maximum transition latency: 10.0 us.
  hardware limits: 1.20 GHz - 2.67 GHz
  available frequency steps: 2.67 GHz, 2.67 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 2.40 GHz, 2.27 GHz, 2.13 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.87 GHz, 1.73 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.47 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.20 GHz
  available cpufreq governors: powersave, ondemand, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 1.20 GHz and 2.67 GHz.
                  The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 1.20 GHz.
  boost state support:
    Supported: yes
    Active: yes
    25500 MHz max turbo 4 active cores
    25500 MHz max turbo 3 active cores
    25500 MHz max turbo 2 active cores
    25500 MHz max turbo 1 active cores

i set governor manualy to powersave but this have no reasonable effect to temp.

With a ATI HD6470M with proprietary driver even low load on i3. plz help

Tioz · 2014-05-29 08:09:25

Hi,

I can not help you a lot, but I just have a suggestion. Have you try to clean the inside of your laptop. After a while you can have big piece of dust blocking the fan (when it happen, blowing in it is not enough)

Is this a fresh install?

Cheers

mesina · 2014-05-29 12:33:29

Tioz wrote:

Is this a fresh install?
Cheers

Yes! I have arch linux before that in a dual boot with win7 and no problem there! Cpu working with a low temp and a slow fan BUT after i completely removed win7 and repartioned my hard with GPT and install a fresh install of arch now with 3.14.4-1-ARCH kernel evel with this load :

cat /proc/loadavg 
0.13 0.10 0.07 1/193 1850

cpu temp is around 50!!

i7z :

Cpu speed from cpuinfo 2659.00Mhz
cpuinfo might be wrong if cpufreq is enabled. To guess correctly try estimating via tsc
Linux's inbuilt cpu_khz code emulated now
True Frequency (without accounting Turbo) 2659 MHz
  CPU Multiplier 20x || Bus clock frequency (BCLK) 132.95 MHz

Socket [0] - [physical cores=2, logical cores=4, max online cores ever=2]
  TURBO ENABLED on 2 Cores, Hyper Threading ON
  Max Frequency without considering Turbo 2791.95 MHz (132.95 x [21])
  Max TURBO Multiplier (if Enabled) with 1/2/3/4 Cores is  22x/22x/0x/0x
  Real Current Frequency 1426.97 MHz [132.95 x 10.73] (Max of below)
        Core [core-id]  :Actual Freq (Mult.)      C0%   Halt(C1)%  C3 %   C6 %  Temp      VCore
        Core 1 [0]:       1352.25 (10.17x)      2.62    3.81     7.7    92.2    41      0.0000
        Core 2 [1]:       1367.17 (10.28x)      2.12    2.42    1.79    99.7    49      0.0000





C0 = Processor running without halting
C1 = Processor running with halts (States >C0 are power saver modes with cores idling)
C3 = Cores running with PLL turned off and core cache turned off
C6, C7 = Everything in C3 + core state saved to last level cache, C7 is deeper than C6
  Above values in table are in percentage over the last 1 sec
[core-id] refers to core-id number in /proc/cpuinfo
'Garbage Values' message printed when garbage values are read
  Ctrl+C to exit

htop :

  1  [|||                                                  2.4%]     Tasks: 51, 67 thr; 1 running
  2  [||||                                                 4.3%]     Load average: 0.07 0.07 0.05 
  3  [||||                                                 4.3%]     Uptime: 01:08:57
  4  [|                                                    0.5%]
  Mem[||||||||||||||||                               609/3812MB]
  Swp[                                                 0/1023MB]

  PID USER      PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
  982 mesina     20   0 1178M  327M 57020 S 11.4  8.6  2:15.43 firefox
  799 root       20   0  274M 94440 68552 S  3.3  2.4  1:59.21 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.v7hHOZjxUn vt1
  845 mesina     20   0  535M 18988 12284 S  2.9  0.5  0:17.10 xfce4-terminal
  996 mesina     20   0 1178M  327M 57020 S  1.0  8.6  0:05.12 firefox
 1884 mesina     20   0 15668  2140  1332 R  0.5  0.1  0:00.07 htop
 1804 root       20   0 11096  1372   952 S  0.5  0.0  0:00.90 i7z
  986 mesina     20   0 1178M  327M 57020 S  0.0  8.6  0:00.82 firefox
  995 mesina     20   0 1178M  327M 57020 S  0.0  8.6  0:00.16 firefox
 1750 mesina     20   0  475M 30644 15316 S  0.0  0.8  0:01.15 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/guake
  461 root       20   0 41564  1232   900 S  0.0  0.0  0:04.62 /usr/bin/cpufreqd -D
 1589 root       20   0 11324  1584   952 S  0.0  0.0  0:01.59 i7z
 1893 mesina     20   0 1178M  327M 57020 S  0.0  8.6  0:00.01 firefox
  666 tor        20   0 44944 23576  6764 S  0.0  0.6  0:02.39 /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc
    1 root       20   0 25856  3456  1868 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.57 /sbin/init
  144 root       20   0 44672  9204  8928 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.19 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
  160 root       20   0 31976  1976  1108 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.43 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
  479 root       20   0  121M  3704  3184 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.16 /usr/sbin/thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable
  456 root       20   0  121M  3704  3184 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.18 /usr/sbin/thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable
  457 root       20   0 32908  1872  1508 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.10 /usr/bin/atieventsd --nodaemon
  467 root       20   0 41564  1232   900 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 /usr/bin/cpufreqd -D
  462 dbus       20   0 25016  1776  1332 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.02 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile -
  475 root       20   0 15260  1456  1208 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
  478 root       20   0  4256   896   748 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.45 /usr/bin/acpid -f
  481 root       20   0 70820  2304  1644 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.02 login -- mesina
  483 root       20   0 32636  1444   888 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.02 wpa_supplicant -B -P /run/wpa_supplicant_wlp3s0.pid -i wlp3s0 -D nl8021
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Tioz · 2014-05-31 12:37:58

mmmm, It look like you cpu should not over heat.

When your laptop is hot, which temperature lm-sensor report? Have you managed to monitor your graphics card?
AMD arch wiki
It look like your cpu should not overheat so maybe it is the gpu! Other people had gpu issues ati overheat

I would also try to clean the fans.

good luck

Last edited by Tioz (2014-05-31 12:57:12)

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#1 2014-05-27 19:12:14

Asus X42JY laptop overheating & fan spins fast

#2 2014-05-29 08:09:25

Re: Asus X42JY laptop overheating & fan spins fast

#3 2014-05-29 12:33:29

Re: Asus X42JY laptop overheating & fan spins fast

#4 2014-05-31 12:37:58

Re: Asus X42JY laptop overheating & fan spins fast

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