On Monday 08 October 2007 20:20, L.Tolstoi wrote: > > Every time I try to run a heavy application (let's say, Cinelerra or any > other video app), the OS shuts down X and print out a message from the > kernel: "temperature too high, shutdown: hda". > > I wonder if any of you experienced something similar. I was thinking about > opening the case to check if the fans are working okay. >
My R3000Z (running amd64-gentoo) was overheating, too. Eventually I had enough, and flipped the laptop over and removed the housing over the two fans (it's easy to see which housing it is). In my case, the fans were covered in a deep layer of two-years' worth of accumulated dust. I cleaned them mostly by blowing really forcefully over them a couple of times. Since then the machine runs about 15-20C cooler! That is a significant difference. At full throttle (2.4GHz), it would average about 70-75C during my typical loading. Now it is idling along at 55C doing the same work. HTH -=R -- Rudolph Pienaar, M.Eng, D.Eng / email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging 149 (2301) 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129 USA _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
