Just in case anyone is interested. It was very much a hardware issue that was leading to the system experiencing thermal issues, just so happens that upon upgrading the Fedora 16 I was paying a lot closer attention to the logs and noticed it. Not sure why I wasn't able to reproduce it as easily in Windows or in Fedora 15, perhaps all the debugging in Fedora 16 has something to do with that, I imagine it generates a bit more load. Now for the funny part, well to me at least, the fan on this ThinkPad was replaced 3 months or so ago, the tech who put it in forgot to remove the slip of paper covering the heat sink/thermal grease so effectivley heat was being pushed from the processor through thermal grease, into a paper layer and then back into thermal grease and on to the heat sink. I suppose it is really luck that little piece of paper didn't catch fire. Thanks again for the help and the patience, I now know how to control the fan on my system via proc, as well as gather temperatures, and create arbitrary loads to test it all out. All good things to learn I suppose. -Erinn -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
