X60 overheating with 7.1

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Thu Jan 15 14:11:04 PST 2009


On Jan 15, 2009, at 16:55 , Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:02 -0500, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> Replying to myself again.
>>
>> With the settings I discussed I got thermal shutdowns doing make -j 4
>> buildworld
>> after about 10 minutes each time.  I am going to swap the tz0 and tz1
>> temperatures
>> and try again.  Since tz1 is more sensitive (the CRT is 97) it makes
>> more sense
>> to be more aggressive cooling it than tz0 which has a CRT of 128.
> ISTR that tz0 is some kind of a sham on X60 or, at least, on 1709-73U
> that I own. It does not implement _PSV, _PSL, _TC1, _TC2 or _TSP and  
> is
> useless from passive cooling standpoint. Its _TMP method returns 128C
> under some conditions _regardless of measured temperature_. Did you
> actually see any attempts at passive cooling when you overrode _PSV in
> tz0?

I kept overriding both, so not really sure.  I am attempting to update  
the box
because I want to know if this was a failed set of modules (7.1 and  
8.0).

Best,
George



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