New user; CPU too hot...

Hi y'all,
i just installed Arch onto my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2045 laptop with Pentium M processor. It was fairly easy, although i ran into few problems afterwards (bad locale, wrong /tmp permissions...). Now i've got wifi working and X running smoothly with Xfce on top of it. Yay!
The thing that puzzles me right now is the high CPU temp and fans constantly on, even when the computer is idle. I also have Ubuntu installed and i've got no such problems back there. Is it possible that the ACPI and stuff isn't configured correctly? TIA for any advice.
Last edited by mahy (2007-05-21 08:31:10)

in Arch few things are configured by default. You have to do it by hand.
The wiki is your friend:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SpeedStep

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Hi
Your notebooks temperature is definitely not too high!
You should know some important facts;
First of all some 3rd party tools dont provide always the 100% right temperature values!
Secondly the internal temperature changes permanently.
Running some games, videos or other high performance programs would lead to higher heat dissipation and to a higher temperature level
This is a common notebook behavior so dont be worried that something is wrong with your notebook ;)
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Bye

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I am having the strangest problems with temperature. I just updated my bios and I cooled down about 5 degrees.
In the BIOS it says 65-68 degrees.
In speed fan Im steady at about 45 but when apps run, I heat up to 75+ degrees C.
I have 5 total fans and A good CPU Heatsink/cooling solution (I think?) I upgraded this from the stock intel that came with the 3.2 prescott.
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I am having the strangest problems with temperature. I just updated my bios and I cooled down about 5 degrees.
If youre temp goes down, is'nt that a good thing?
My prescot is idling at +/- 50 deg. 65 deg when gaming according to the BIOS.
I've also tried it with an Abit AI7 board, and it was the same temps.
I have 7 fans, 2 on the side right next to the HSF.
With the different BIOS I've tried, temps have varied from 25-50 deg idle, so
bios can report wrong temps. Thats not such a big deal, aslong as youre system is stable, but as far as I have understod, the main issue is that the temp does'nt go up more then 10-15 deg when you put some heavy load on it.
If I understand you right, youre temp is 45 deg when idle(wich is quite low IMO) and 75+ under load. Thats a differense like 30 deg.
How long is it since you mounted the CPU? Maybe you should put on some new paste, do it all over again, I mean.
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Then you will know if the readings in the BIOS is right.
Thunder

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Hi
Like in you previous posting described the Toshiba power saver controls the CPU and fan usage.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=12585
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Another day and another couple of questions ...
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Quote from: SpencerSteel on 20-September-06, 02:14:50
Hello there,
Another day and another couple of questions ...
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Sys Temp: 37c/98f
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Or, is it all basically OK ?
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Updating to OS X 10.8.5
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