Carl, 

 

I am getting a little more familiar with the temperature monitor.  The numbers 
I gave are peaks.   Mostly the cores are operating in the 50’s.  

 

Still, I take your point. 

 

N

 

Nick Thompson

 <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Carl Tollander
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 7:43 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

 

If really worried about the core heat and you just gotta check your mail before 
the repair shop opens, stick the sleeping laptop in the fridge for half an 
hour, take it out and check mail for 5 minutes, repeat.  I used this to good 
effect with a couple laptops in years past.  But you really gotta keep usage 
down to a trickle.  As soon as you can hear the fan it's time to stop.  Don't 
repeatedly put a hot laptop next to the egg salad.   Might want to use a 
plastic bag if there is a lot of condensation.

 

BTW, for folks with macs, iStat Menus is a very nice system/temperature 
monitoring app.

 

 

 

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:17 PM Alexander Rasmus <alex.m.ras...@gmail.com 
<mailto:alex.m.ras...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Nick,

 

As a short term fix, you can try pointing an external fan at your laptop.  
This'll probably work best if you prop up the back of the laptop and have the 
fan incident from the side so you get good airflow across the bottom of the 
laptop, but your mileage will vary depending on where the fan vents are and 
where the CPU is located.

 

Best,

Rasmus

 

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 2:33 PM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net 
<mailto:j...@cas-group.net> > wrote:

If it is just dust then Carl's tip could be useful. It helped for one of my 
older laptops before it was replaced. I hope you have a recent backup! If you 
can get it running again (after the dust has been removed and it has cooled 
down) then a backup of the most important data should have highest priority if 
there is no recent one.

 

-J.

 

 

-------- Original message --------

From: Carl Tollander <c...@plektyx.com <mailto:c...@plektyx.com> > 

Date: 7/18/21 07:00 (GMT+01:00) 

To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com 
<mailto:friam@redfish.com> > 

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?! 

 

Fan bearings.   Keep it cool.  Possibly some debris in the fan that a service 
person could blow out with compressed air.  

 

 

 

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, 22:50 <thompnicks...@gmail.com 
<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Anybody, 

 

My Lenovo laptop has started making the oddest array of noises.  It started 
with clunks and chunks and churrs but has now moved on to peeps and whistles.  
It’s latest production is a dying swan noise … a squeal, that descends in 
halftones and intensity followed by a scary silence… for a bit.  

 

Lenovo customer service seems to be “upgrading its systems” and has not 
responded for three days.  Much as the noises sound like a dying mechanical 
hard drive,  this machine has a solid state hard drive.  Any thoughts?  The 
machine seems to be working fine otherwise, but I am afraid it is going to 
shake itself to death.  

 

Sorry to bother you with this.  

 

N

 

 

 

Nick Thompson

thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

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