Comment 175 for bug 22336

It doesn't justify why the temperature would be increasing/decreasing by 10C
within approx. 2 seconds either (see my bug entry for details).

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On 5/28/07, GreatBunzinni <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> bmjbmj
>
> I do not think that is the case. At all.
>
> First of all, the dust bunnies clogging the fan intake does not justify
> the different thermal behaviour that that line of laptops shows under
> windows (works smoothly) and linux (massive overheating problems). What
> you saw there was windows correctly handling the CPU scaling, which
> doesn't happen in Ubuntu.
>
> Second, I just got my acer aspire 1524 laptop from Acer's customer
> support, where it was repaired.The laptop went up in smoke and they've
> replaced the motherboard, graphics card and keyboard. It was as clean as
> it could be. Nonetheless, as soon as I got it I tried to install Kubuntu
> and as it was expected it crashed due to overheating. There were no dust
> bunnies nor any spec of dust inside the laptop and yet, the overheating
> problem persists. And yes, that problem doesn't happen in windows.
> Again.
>
> --
> CPU overheats during high usage "throttling <not supported>"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22336
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