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 at comcast.net> 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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