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Hi all, |
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Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of |
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compiling ;-) ) |
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I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I |
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believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, |
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even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty old!) |
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Anyway, I noticed during my last compile-fest on my laptop (reinstalled, |
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switched to systemd for testing) that a corner of the laptop is getting |
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really hot. We are talking a fair bit of heat here, you can't keep it on |
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your lap when it warms up. |
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So I took it apart yesterday, figuring I should re-do the thermal paste. |
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During this process, I discovered it's the southbridge ICH chip that's |
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overheating. There's no cooler at all on this chip (the northbridge and |
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CPU have heat piping), it's a bare chip. |
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Now, I suspect there's not much I can do about this given it being a |
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laptop and I might have to resign myself to the fact that I'm going to |
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have to buy a laptop later this year/early next year. |
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I am curious though, what causes this chip to overheat, and can I do |
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something about it? |
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I'm using lm_sensors, which doesn't provide a temperature for this |
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particular chip. I've monitored processes and nothing really stands out. |
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I've even tried disabling plasma, no luck. |
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Dan |