Acer Aspire 1522 Wlmi Overheating During Install

While I was installing SuSe 10.1 my notebook went black cos my notebook processor was overheated. It is a desktop replacement notebook with an AMD Athlon™ 64 for DTR processor. Do you have any idea what should I do? It is possible to pass parameters to set processor frequvency to lower its freq value during installation to reduce its temperature?

My notebook is an acer aspire 1522 Wlmi.

One notion would be to deliberately clock it down in the BIOS while you're installing and clock it back up when the Automatic Power Contols are in place.

Odd that it should over-heat though - the processor isn't exactly running it's nuts off during install.

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There should also be an option in the bios that allows to set the "fans always on when A/C plugged in". This option can be useful to prevent the overheating.

See :
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...howtopic=21123
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534

I've cheked it's bios and unfortunately it has a very simple phoenix bios so I cannot set these options. I cannot set frequency and fan speed. I've thought about bios upgrade, and there wasn't any new bios versions.

While I was installing SuSe 10.1 my notebook went black cos my notebook processor was overheated. .... [snipped] .... My notebook is an acer aspire 1522 Wlmi.[/b]

This appears to be a common experience with users of your model laptop. For example, here is a note by a Ubuntu user:
http://rbak.demon.nl/ubuntu/acer_aspire.php

I think the recommendation is install your SuSE in an airconditioned room, preferably with your laptop close to the cold air flow. Ensure there is nothing that can block the airflow in/out of your laptop, such that its cooling is at maximum efficiency.

Or alternatively, you could move to Germany, open the doors of your appartment, and install the software then. Your appartment will be nice and cold! (as will your laptop, and you - don't catch pnemonia though). Its been so frigging cold here the last few days, I'm wondering why I left Canada! (Its warmer in Canada, where I used to live).

I think the recommendation is install your SuSE in an airconditioned room, preferably with your laptop close to the cold air flow. Ensure there is nothing that can block the airflow in/out of your laptop, such that its cooling is at maximum efficiency.

Or alternatively, you could move to Germany, open the doors of your appartment, and install the software then. Your appartment will be nice and cold! (as will your laptop, and you - don't catch pnemonia though). Its been so frigging cold here the last few days, I'm wondering why I left Canada! (Its warmer in Canada, where I used to live).
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Just wanted to tell ya all that sweden works too. Suspected it might be a heating problem but didn't really want to believe it. Tried opening up the window (-5C outside atm) and angling the computers airintake towards it and lo and behold! it worked!!
(was an Acer Aspire 5104)

My thought on this is that it seems Acer with this simple phoenix bios can't handle the fans to cool the comp. properly. It relies on an OS booting and seeing to it then. The reason I've come to think of it this way is because after I managed to install winXP (yes, I know... it's my sisters notebook) it worked fine. However when I was going to enable a safeboot and wasn't fast enough to choose from the menu it died on me again. Hence there seems to be no problem while the comp has booted an OS, but before that it's vulnerable to overheating.

In addition to the Swedish method which i often use
I put my old laptop on top of 2 ice blocks (the kind used for food cooler boxes) with a towel between

/Geoff