On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 16:12 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote: > 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. No problem, glad it got figured out in the end! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
