I have a Lenovo x120e laptop that's had thermal issues from the start. I've tried everything I can, but I think there's nothing I can do to prevent it from overheating.
It regularly gets into the 90's C, but seems to only randomly shut down as a result of this. It's run at 99 for a long time and be fine, but then it'll be cooler and shut down.
So I've given up on trying to keep it cool, there doesn't seem to be any immediate bad effects of it running hot, and there's no point in trying for longevity with this computer. All I want to do is keep it from shutting down randomly.
On another forum it was suggested that adding thermal.nocrt=1 to the kernel boot commands would solve this, or echo "disabled" >/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode . I've tried both, and tried rmmod thinkpad_acpi, but it still randomly shuts down.
Here's a thread about what I've done to try to prevent overheating: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series...ng/td-p/997131
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acpi=off seems to work, but it disables useful things like battery monitoring, suspend, and cpu frequency scaling.
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I think that thermal.off=1 boot command worked. I'll have to wait and see though.
It regularly gets into the 90's C, but seems to only randomly shut down as a result of this. It's run at 99 for a long time and be fine, but then it'll be cooler and shut down.
So I've given up on trying to keep it cool, there doesn't seem to be any immediate bad effects of it running hot, and there's no point in trying for longevity with this computer. All I want to do is keep it from shutting down randomly.
On another forum it was suggested that adding thermal.nocrt=1 to the kernel boot commands would solve this, or echo "disabled" >/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode . I've tried both, and tried rmmod thinkpad_acpi, but it still randomly shuts down.
Here's a thread about what I've done to try to prevent overheating: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series...ng/td-p/997131
---------- Post added at 03:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:23 PM ----------
acpi=off seems to work, but it disables useful things like battery monitoring, suspend, and cpu frequency scaling.
---------- Post added at 04:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------
I think that thermal.off=1 boot command worked. I'll have to wait and see though.