Gateway NV53 overheats with openSuSE (11.3/11.4)
I have a Gateway NV53 laptop, and just letting it idle in openSUSE causes it to overheat. When running sensors in a terminal, the temperature slowly rises from 85C to 96C before it shuts down (when it reaches 90 I shut it down myself to prevent it from killing my computer).
I've tried disabling the desktop effect, tried installing the ATI Drivers, which renders Gnome unable to boot (I don't like KDE). I've also tried kernel boot options like nomodeset for the ATI Drivers and without, no difference. I have asked for help on the openSUSE forums and was told to find another forum and see if anyone else had openSUSE running on a Gateway NV53 - so that was very disappointing. Here's my specs: Code:
AMD Athlon II x2 M300 2.0GHz http://paste.ubuntu.com/578710/ Let me know if I can give you further information. Thanks! - Also another question, in dmidecode it says maximum memory is 8GB, Gateway says 4GB, could I try a 4GB and see if it works? |
Did you check all of your running processes that might be consuming your CPU percentage? And also just to throw it out there just to rule it out, are your fans working?
EDIT - What sensors are giving you the high temperature values? |
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The fan is running right now on Ubuntu. With Ubuntu sensors shows: Code:
acpitz-virtual-0 |
Can you show the output of sensors within suse?
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linux:/home/linux # sensors |
Can you determine what sensors are for what?
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echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs Code:
acpitz-virtual-0 |
Oh nice. At least your system isn't on the verge of blowing up now....
Do you have a dual core CPU? I'm trying to figure out your sensors... To me, it seems like acpitz-virtual-0 is your CPU, and the other is your battery, but I might be wrong. |
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EDIT: Wait but k10 is the class of cpu. So yeah the AMD Athlon II X2 M300 should be a K10 CPU, cause I wouldn't think the temps varying from core to core would be so drastically changed. |
O ok cool. And I wanted to say... Gotta love powertop :)
How hot does it feel now? Still the same, or are you getting better improvements? |
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