Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

Kyle Carter · 2009-09-17 17:27:54

I'm not too familiar with laptops, so I'm not sure if this is connected or not, but my wireless connection is dropping a LOT. I noticed the bottom of the computer heats up VERY quick, and now I'm finding that it's running at around 120-130 degrees. This wasn't happening with XP or Ubuntu, so I feel like there must be a setting I've missed in terms of CPU performance.

The interior fans are NOT dusty, so I think there must be a misconfiguration.

Does anyone know more about this?

byte · 2009-09-17 17:36:23

Install acpi and post the output of 'acpi -V', plus output of 'dmesg'.
You might also install lm_sensors, run 'sensors-detect', load the appropriate modules and show output of 'sensors'.

Kyle Carter · 2009-09-17 18:29:32

sensors-detect didn't do anything for me, but here's acpi -V:

Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 49.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 97.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 93.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 3

byte · 2009-09-17 20:02:46

I wouldn't feel concerned about the ~50°C, that's pretty normal for a notebook.
But it seems suspicious that acpi -V doesn't show fans.

Try this:
- run 'cat /dev/urandom >/dev/null' in a terminal for a few (10-20) seconds, to produce some heat
- meanwhile, run 'for A in $(seq 1 10); do acpi -t; sleep 1; done' in another terminal, to watch the temperature
- listen if there's any fan noise

If it's getting too hot (anything around 90 or more) very fast, cancel the urandom with ctrl-c.

Kyle Carter · 2009-09-17 21:41:20

I do know for a fact that the fan IS running, despite the lack of it in acpi. I'll still try what you said if you think it'll help though.

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#1 2009-09-17 17:27:54

Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

#2 2009-09-17 17:36:23

Re: Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

#3 2009-09-17 18:29:32

Re: Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

#4 2009-09-17 20:02:46

Re: Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

#5 2009-09-17 21:41:20

Re: Acer Aspire 3000 overheating since I moved to arch.

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