Laptop overheating
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Fix Committed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
To Whom It May Concern:
I just installed Linux Mint 13 Maya with the Mate desktop, and I am finding that I can not run it on my laptop because it causes it to overheat, without even running any applications. I have run Red Hat for years on my home laptop, followed by Fedora, and Ubuntu on my work laptop, without any problems. If I let the laptop start up into Linux Mint without touching anything, it starts to cook dangerously. If I try to run any applications, as it heats up it runs so slow that it becomes unusable. If I pop it the freezer for a couple minutes, it will be usable for a little while until it overheats again, then it crawls to a stop and I can't use any applications. That it is dangerously hot is verified by the fact that if I restart into Windows 7, it refuses to start "to protect computer components from overheating." I have read on the Mint help forums that, unlike Windows, linux is designed to maximize performance and this causes computers to run hotter in linux. Clearly there is a serious bug if the computer overheats without any applications running and crawls to a stop when one tries to use an application. My HP Pavilion dv7-2170us is only two years old, and as I mentioned before, I have never experienced anything like this with previous installations.
Sincerely,
Brian Keay
Hi!
"If I pop it the freezer for a couple minutes, it will be usable for a little while until it overheats again, then it crawls to a stop and I can't use any applications."
Be careful. Especially the screen can take damage from this(cracks...).
The heat issue is known and is cured in later versions of the kernel (though it probably still runs hotter than Windows). I run 3.8 on my machine, which was overheating with anything after Mint 10, and it runs just fine.
I'd take it to the forum though for further help (more people over there): forums. linuxmint. com/index. php
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