On 24/05/15 03:03, jd1008 wrote: > I have an HP laptop with > AMD Turion II X2 mobile processor RM-72 / 2.1 GHz CPU, Socket S1. > It is now causing blue screens in windows and freezes > linux (pclinuxos, knoppix, fedora live). Having recently replaced my notebook, I leave a short tale: Machine would instantly power off during heavy tasks (one development language) under windows, and trying any yum based activity in Fedora 20. In Fedora, even setting nice at max niceness rarely got me through a yum update (with the trashed rpm db that the (emergency) power off caused).
I opened all parts of the notebook, and used a compressed air spray to remove any dust I could. This made no significant difference. I just avoided those tasks (eg hit ctrl-z as the fan spun up, waited ten seconds and let it go fg). A few months later, I got access to an air compressor with nozzle. While there are risks in doing this (damage components either physically or via static/moisture), cleaning it in all directions worked well (jam any fans with a cable tie to stop the air over-speeding the fan), and I was able to use the laptop normally for the next few months. (I blame the dog's fur ;-) Other recommendations I saw included removing the cpu to replace the heat transfer paste/material with fresh new material, could be worth a shot... > *Thermal Design Power* *35 Watt* How does this compare to the existing CPU's dissipation ? Another thing you can do with multi-core cpu (at least intel) is to instruct the kernel to disable cores. However, I think this could only help you if it is the second core that is a problem, because I think the first core always runs the "boot process", ie it needs to stay on. Dave. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
