From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drigt-0000ux-36 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:46:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6AKiQLi005089; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:44:26 GMT Received: from drone2.qsi.net.nz (drone2-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6AKeWbi002458 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:40:33 GMT Received: (qmail 22026 invoked by uid 0); 10 Jul 2005 20:41:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO io.olympus) ([210.55.65.161]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jul 2005 20:41:03 -0000 From: Phillip Stewart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out. Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:41:01 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42D070E1.3050101@yahoo.ca> In-Reply-To: <42D070E1.3050101@yahoo.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <200507110841.01673.gentoo1@feymud.net> X-Archives-Salt: 93ec4980-6da5-45e7-a143-55b263e8e215 X-Archives-Hash: 84a7c3a5384ef791d7a4a2d303f9c7d5 On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:50, Ian K wrote: > Hi there. > My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. > It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. Could it be simply that the processor is overheating and shutting down to protect itself? My Dell laptop used to do the same thing 6 months after I bought it. I took a can of compressed air to the vents and a pile of dust shot out. Now it works fine! Maybe install a CPU monitoring tool (e.g. gkrellm2) and keep an eye on the temperature? Cheers, Phillip -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list