Re: F17 - problem with overheating

[Paolo De Michele]

Hi Jim, Ranjan
 
On 12/27/2012 02:48 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>  On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:43 -0500 Jim <binarynut(a)comcast.net&gt;
> wrote:
>
> > On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE)
> >> I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like
> >> crazy -
> >>
> >> I opened the laptop to see if there was dust on the cpu fan but it is clean
> >> I noticed that maybe when I watch a video, I look at the mail (thunderbird,
> >> kmail) or do a bit of multitasking then the fan runs a lot (the cpu never
> >> reaches 100%)
> >>
> >> what can be the problem?
> >> thanks in advance
> >> cheers
> > Do you have the laptop setting on flat surface so air can get into 
> > bottom of laptop.
> > I have seen people have their laptop setting on their bed and it could 
> > not get any air to the bottom. 
Usually do not use the laptop in bed but it happens at work, in the
table at home, everywhere.

> > --
>  Also, have you tried it with other Fedora and non-Fedora
>  distributions/OS/releases? I would first make sure that the problem is
>  isolated to Fedora 17 and not the hardware, kernel, etc. 
Honestly I never tried other distributions over fedora (before I was 15
and then 16 but the problem was the same).
You advise me to try another distribution?

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