Laptop is a Dell M5010 (acquired approx early 2009), AMD Athlon II P320 X2 @ 2.1 GHz, 3 GB mem. Came from Dell with Win7, I installed openSuse in multiboot. Had not many probs with oS 11 or 12, but with 13.1, machine shows overheating probs. Room at 23C, sensors command shows 82 - 88C. Room at 28C, sensors shows in the 90s, and laptop will shut down.
Fan is operating correctly, IMO. No fan on startup, within 2 min fan at medium speed, thereafter fan runs howling wide open. Fan outlet vent shows 63C on my infrared gun prior to shutdown. No obvious dust in cooling ducts, have blown and vacuumed from both sides. Laptop is sitting on half-inch spacers to allow max air to inlets.
I don't believe that it is a mechanical prob (age, drying cpu thermal compound) because running on the Win7 side shows no heat probs. Have installed Core Temp 0.99.8 in Win7, and after rebooting from oS where sensors showed 82C, temp in Win7 drops steadily. At 78C, fan drops to med speed. At 71C, fan on low speed, and stays there. Temp after 15 min is 65C. Core Temp also shows that the cpu speed is modulated from 2100 MHz (200 x 10.5) down to 800 MHz (200 x 4) under light loads (approx 70% of the time).
Questions:
1. Does oS 13.1 have a setting for lower perf / lower power?
2. Does oS 13.1 have a setting for multi-speed or reduced load cpu operation?
3. Have installed linux computertemp 0.9.6.1-25.1.1 prgm thru yast, but can't seem to figure out how to invoke it (yah, I'm a noob), help?
Thanks in advance for your help ...
Jon
Fan is operating correctly, IMO. No fan on startup, within 2 min fan at medium speed, thereafter fan runs howling wide open. Fan outlet vent shows 63C on my infrared gun prior to shutdown. No obvious dust in cooling ducts, have blown and vacuumed from both sides. Laptop is sitting on half-inch spacers to allow max air to inlets.
I don't believe that it is a mechanical prob (age, drying cpu thermal compound) because running on the Win7 side shows no heat probs. Have installed Core Temp 0.99.8 in Win7, and after rebooting from oS where sensors showed 82C, temp in Win7 drops steadily. At 78C, fan drops to med speed. At 71C, fan on low speed, and stays there. Temp after 15 min is 65C. Core Temp also shows that the cpu speed is modulated from 2100 MHz (200 x 10.5) down to 800 MHz (200 x 4) under light loads (approx 70% of the time).
Questions:
1. Does oS 13.1 have a setting for lower perf / lower power?
2. Does oS 13.1 have a setting for multi-speed or reduced load cpu operation?
3. Have installed linux computertemp 0.9.6.1-25.1.1 prgm thru yast, but can't seem to figure out how to invoke it (yah, I'm a noob), help?
Thanks in advance for your help ...
Jon