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HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

Jimjan

Please don't send PMs with requests for help.

If someone wants to help then they will be monitoring the forum for new posts. I already choose to be notified by email of new posts to any thread that I am interested in.
Discussion belongs on the forums so that it benefits everybody.

I suggest you use the information provided earlier in this thread to setup the software to monitor your temperature. Then you can come back with "my processor temperature is x degrees" rather than

jimjan · Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 4

sorry
will not repeat
jj

msumner · Posted: Sun 24 Jun 2007, 18:51 Post subject:

While we are on the subject of laptops and heat, I have a question. My Dell inspiron 6400 runs fine with the fan coming on when it is working hard ( and sometimes when it isn't doing much).

However.... if I leave it for a while and the screen switches off, it is very warm when I come back to it even though it has been, in theory, doing nothing, except the odd daemon and the wifi. Is it heating up because the fan doesnt run when it goes into "screen switching off mode" whatever that is?

I would have thought it should go into suspend or hibernate if you leave it long enough, in which case it would be using no or v. little power?
Mike

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

The new kernel that is going in puppy 2.17 is supposed to fix some laptop acpi bugs. Maybe that's one of them?

msumner · Posted: Mon 25 Jun 2007, 14:17 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Mon 25 Jun 2007, 15:55 Post subject:

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

jimjan
I thought I'd posted a reply yesterday.
Have you managed to install the monitoring software?
What temp is your CPU at?

ExZoniePup · Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Sanger, California

My old laptop power supply fan doesn't work... I think I knocked it off its axis with a can of compressed air (oops) when it was rattling too much.

Now I have a reason to run Puppy on it and see what the temp is in there. I have been scared to keep it on any longer than an hour or so. The battery is shot on it so it's on AC power constantly, but I had no idea of the temperature of the CPU. Mainly I wanted to keep from frying the hard drive or of course the CPU.

Great advice here, thanks all.

ExZoniePup

russ · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 48

I have a Toshiba M35x-S311, it is a centrino with Pentium-M 1.5 Ghz processor. I use Puppy 2.14 "livecd"and the fan cycles on and off. When I strain the mounted hard drive by searching for something there the fan stays on constantly (just as it does in windows XP ). Seems to work normally. Incidentally, I think Puppy was designed for this machine as it picks up all of the hardware, software modem included. I think someone should work on a "laptop Puppy" version. Which would, in my case, include a battery monitor (Batmon) and throttle down ability for the processor when solely on the battery power. I do have both of the above working, but would be nice to have it built in.

Getnikar · Posted: Sat 28 Jul 2007, 08:28 Post subject:

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800, approx 4 yr old. Cpu: Celeron (Coppermine) 896MHz, 40Gb HDD. The fan has always cycled on and off ok under Puppy, including old versions (2.x).