Laptop is a Dell M5010 (acquired approx early 2009), AMD Athlon II P320 X2 @ 2.1 GHz, 3 GB mem. Came from Dell with Win7, I installed openSuse in multiboot. Had not many probs with oS 11 or 12, but with 13.1, machine shows overheating probs. Room at 23C, sensors command shows 82 - 88C. Room at 28C, sensors shows in the 90s, and laptop will shut down.
Fan is operating correctly, IMO. No fan on startup, within 2 min fan at medium speed, thereafter fan runs howling wide open. Fan outlet vent shows 63C on my infrared gun prior to shutdown. No obvious dust in cooling ducts, have blown and vacuumed from both sides. Laptop is sitting on half-inch spacers to allow max air to inlets.
I don’t believe that it is a mechanical prob (age, drying cpu thermal compound) because running on the Win7 side shows no heat probs. Have installed Core Temp 0.99.8 in Win7, and after rebooting from oS where sensors showed 82C, temp in Win7 drops steadily. At 78C, fan drops to med speed. At 71C, fan on low speed, and stays there. Temp after 15 min is 65C. Core Temp also shows that the cpu speed is modulated from 2100 MHz (200 x 10.5) down to 800 MHz (200 x 4) under light loads (approx 70% of the time).
Questions:
- Does oS 13.1 have a setting for lower perf / lower power?
- Does oS 13.1 have a setting for multi-speed or reduced load cpu operation?
- Have installed linux computertemp 0.9.6.1-25.1.1 prgm thru yast, but can’t seem to figure out how to invoke it (yah, I’m a noob), help?
Thanks in advance for your help …
Jon
On Wed 05 Mar 2014 12:26:01 AM CST, reddawg315 wrote:
Laptop is a Dell M5010 (acquired approx early 2009), AMD Athlon II P320
X2 @ 2.1 GHz, 3 GB mem. Came from Dell with Win7, I installed openSuse
in multiboot. Had not many probs with oS 11 or 12, but with 13.1,
machine shows overheating probs. Room at 23C, sensors command shows 82
- 88C. Room at 28C, sensors shows in the 90s, and laptop will shut
down.
Fan is operating correctly, IMO. No fan on startup, within 2 min fan at
medium speed, thereafter fan runs howling wide open. Fan outlet vent
shows 63C on my infrared gun prior to shutdown. No obvious dust in
cooling ducts, have blown and vacuumed from both sides. Laptop is
sitting on half-inch spacers to allow max air to inlets.
I don’t believe that it is a mechanical prob (age, drying cpu thermal
compound) because running on the Win7 side shows no heat probs. Have
installed Core Temp 0.99.8 in Win7, and after rebooting from oS where
sensors showed 82C, temp in Win7 drops steadily. At 78C, fan drops to
med speed. At 71C, fan on low speed, and stays there. Temp after 15
min is 65C. Core Temp also shows that the cpu speed is modulated from
2100 MHz (200 x 10.5) down to 800 MHz (200 x 4) under light loads
(approx 70% of the time).
Questions:
- Does oS 13.1 have a setting for lower perf / lower power?
- Does oS 13.1 have a setting for multi-speed or reduced load cpu
operation?
- Have installed linux computertemp 0.9.6.1-25.1.1 prgm thru yast, but
can’t seem to figure out how to invoke it (yah, I’m a noob), help?
Thanks in advance for your help …
Jon
Hi
Have a look at setting the radeon driver to low, see;
https://forums.opensuse.org/entry.php/142-Package-of-the-day-systemd-radeon-power_profile
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Sister had laptop with ATI card that overheated until I installed the ATI proprietary drivers (https://en.opensuse.org/AMD).
On 2014-11-03 07:26, boombatower wrote:
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> Sister had laptop with ATI card that overheated until I installed the
> ATI proprietary drivers (https://en.opensuse.org/AMD).
If it is the CPU, look at “pm-profiler -x”. Then you could try
“pm-profiler --set-active-profile balanced_low_latency”, or
“powersaving” if not sufficient.
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