CPU temperature Thinkpad R61
Christoph Höger
choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Oct 16 09:41:20 UTC 2009
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 17:34 -0500 schrieb Mikkel:
> Christoph Höger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wondered why my fan always runs after a while. After closing
> > firefox (which took 50% cpu along with X) I now have a load of roughly
> > 0.06 - barely nothing computed at all. Both cores are in the lowest
> > config and yet my cpu temperature goes from 42°C to 47°C in roughly 2
> > minutes (and back by fan activity).
> >
> > I would understand this if there was some load, but what causes my CPU
> > to heat if it does nothing? Design failure? Has anybody seen such a
> > thing?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> When was the last time you cleaned the dust out? Also are the air
> vents on the laptop clear when in use?
I am aware of that dust thing (I am going to give a compressor a try),
but the heat goes up when the notebook and the fan is idle. That should
not have anything to do with dust, right?
regards
Christoph
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