Here's the question guys:

I am running Suse 9.2 (Pentium IV 3GHz + HT, 1Gb ram, nVidia 6800) and I can't seem to get to the root of this problem.
I keep getting the following console messages as soon as the cpu load is above regular web browsing load:

Message from syslogd@linux at Sat Dec 11 20:41:35 2004 ...
linux kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold

Message from syslogd@linux at Sat Dec 11 20:41:35 2004 ...
linux kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold

Message from syslogd@linux at Sat Dec 11 20:41:35 2004 ...
linux kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode

Message from syslogd@linux at Sat Dec 11 20:41:35 2004 ...
linux kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode

The video card is running at good temperature, while I am pretty sure the cpu temperature is fine as well (bios temp is fine and cpu fan is modulated to rev up when temp goes up, but the fan never goes at higher revs).
If run the cpu fan at constant high speed the messages show up regardless... Also when I run windows and even play doom3, cpu temp is still nice and cool... I think I can exclude the cpu being hot!
If I query sensors, first I get:

Can't access procfs/sysfs file
Unable to find i2c bus information;
For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done
'modprobe i2c_sensor'!
For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!

When I do modprobe i2c_sensor and then sensors again I get:

No sensors found!

I tried looking on the web for this, but for what I could see the origin of this problem generally was that the cpu temp was really above normal, but I really don't think that's my case... What's the deal? How can I fix this? Any ideas?

Thanks a bunch,
Simone

hi,
this is a hard one !
the fact that it starts up after putting some load implies it's working doesn't it (anybody)?
wouldn't want to turn it off if it's needed.
i wonder what triggers these mesages is apmd or acpid running ?
i'l try to get you started but i don't use this so i can't really follow up
forgive 20 questions
hopefully others will step in
this is some kindof acpi thermal_zone thing trying to regulate cpu speed to keep temp down
is this a laptop ?
if it's a laptop you can try
as a boot parameter acpi=on and see if it helps
or to try to make this go away (especially if it's not a laptop) you could try booting with
pci=noacpi or acpi=off

show us
dmesg | grep apm
and
dmesg | grep acpi

it's weird cause it's a kernel message which means either a loaded module or something compiled in
try showing us
lsmod | grep i2c

just to follow the message
do you have in your /etc/fstab
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
and a directory /sys ?

is there a file /etc/cpuspeed.conf ? and what does it say ?
what says /etc/rc.d/init.d/cpuspeed status ?
whats in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone ?

what's in /etc/acpi/events ?

if you want to try to get it working
in order to setup lm_sensors you do as root
sensors-detect
and follow along it tells you what to put in modprobe.conf and gives you an init script



this is another thread i found about this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=255402

Thanks so much for the ideas, I'll give it a try!
I tried turning off and on each individual power management scheme in BIOS and also to turn off hardware monitoring, but I still got those messages. And, no, it's not a laptop... I tried sensors-detect before but it couldn't find any...
Simone

I have exactly the same problem, I thought it was something of a hardware issue, so I fiddled around with the connetions but the problem persistend, and the blipping really kills me (I unplugged the blipping connection of my computer for that... ), this did not work so I had an idea, I put win2K on and when I load win2K, there is no blipping or errors on the temperature, all is status quo.I cannot always have the tty0 to 6 flooded with messages of CPU temperatures, and the system thinks the computer is a laptop, is there any way to resolve this?

Ciao,

Maurizio

Hi

I have exactely the same problem
i have an inspiron xps laptop P4 3.4Ghz HT
the idle temp is 62C
when i run some calculations >> it goes up to 76C
and at this point i have this famous message showing up
>>> Running in modulated clock mode
i did the same than you

trying lm_sensors etc ...

it doesn t find any PCI ias etc ... chip

I m using mandrake 10.1
acpi is running

under windows
the temp in idle is the same about 55C

at this point i don t know what to do

changing fan heat sink
changing distribution

or getting help ... ??

help would be a lot appreciated

so thanks

jean

this thread is older than the hills, but i have the same problem on mandrive one, dell dimension 2300.

don't get any signs of over heating or anything under windows xp.

anybody ever figure out anything?

thanks

Not that this is the solution, but for now, I went to the cmd line, went typed setup. Went to services and unselected acpid. For now it appears to be gone.

What I really hated, was that the warnings would come up in the middle to typing.

So this cleared the temp warnings, but I still receive the Running in modulated clock mode.

Hi,

Very old thread i know,maybe someone replies...

I get the same error mentioned above running FC4.I have cleaned my CPU and so on,there was a bit of dust,but its clean now,and the message keeps popping up.The CPU temp seems fine(at around 58 degrees Celcius it might be a bit high for a Intel Pentium CPU,but no bad,am i right?).Does anybody know what can cause this?

Will this really help.Are you then just not hiding the issue as opposed to fixing it?

I'm having this problem running FC5 on an XPS laptop. Its warm, but I don't think it is actually overheating. It is fine in Windows.

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