overheated laptop

[sly]

Satish Balay wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, sly wrote:
> 
> 
>>see, i did not have this temperature issues before on fc2 about 6 month ago.
>>nor under win xp. the fan used to kick in at high speed, cool down and fan
>>speed used to slow down to min.
> 
> 
> 6 months is a long time - the hardware could have deteriorated. FC2 &

  yeah. under xp doesn't heat up this much.

> FC3 now have similar kernels. Anyway - were you using APM instead of
> ACPI with FC2?

acpi. i wasn't paying too much attention till it started burning my 
fingers and sometimes shutting down because of overheating - 80C.

> 
> As you suspect - there could be something else going on. This is a
> "don't know" zone for me.

i wish i had more time to spend on this. already lost few nights of 
sleep. :)

> 
> Satish
>