[Scottish] May 2003 ScotLUG Meeting

Rob Hamilton scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri May 30 10:14:03 2003


--- William Anderson <neuro@well.com> wrote:
> Kyle Gordon wrote:
> > Sounds like a design fault then, and I'll do my
> best to get my money
> > back. The thing can't even sit on a flat surface
> without eventually
> > overheating and cutting out. (The air intake is on
> the underside, with
> > only a few mm to drag air in from)
> 
> same as on my vaio, but it's never usually
> burnyburnysearinghot, just sort
> of the inside of a tea cosy warm :)
> 
If you have acpi is working have you tried throttling
the cpu? I've a simple script I sometimes run on my
vaio qr20 that monitors temp and throttles down if
needed. 
cheers,
Rob





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