From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5197C138CD3 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EABCE0952; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1686E08FC for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wifx6 with SMTP id x6so4669443wif.0 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mh8+vukbgJNH7Y513A5ORtrWgIZvGPLmwnmqo6F2E9g=; b=k4MIdXRhb6n+kJh9sXewWbVC/q2E9j+xe626adwFM1wMzAB/BgwQTiDj/u0uxSkcLq gcXy62r/amuYM3qKohe1zCjL7CCubvj3n4fUCs/1s/ngfof0uDXrzFbEqSWIzNRCKHNZ WBj0oFzlTXREUNNXQ3zcJI1Stvc740ygB65QMYYSfTkPtJ1C3IM6+Qe03m1Yn7vcnwzE TQIKt+4YK7KTJ50EG9ji2enbaH8IvLCPr2Oq00ORvvmkDS7Svon/w77toIU///zHslaK 2pAGr6VsPUHV+q/ZAw58vcPteIeukICXcUAmDjXd4C+Oo0TJUyC+JpN2UvfEs1Es9vlC eywQ== X-Received: by 10.195.11.3 with SMTP id ee3mr36716847wjd.89.1433803656859; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p4FC12AEB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.193.42.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q4sm6448427wju.14.2015.06.08.15.47.35 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55761B86.2080309@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:47:34 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating References: <5574C272.9020004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5574C272.9020004@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b965e94b-9c26-4314-beed-86c2298acaca X-Archives-Hash: 10f0be9289ef2b4f79c2970ac282f2a8 Am 08.06.2015 um 00:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: > Hi all, > > Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of > compiling ;-) ) > > I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I > believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, > even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty old!) > > Anyway, I noticed during my last compile-fest on my laptop (reinstalled, > switched to systemd for testing) that a corner of the laptop is getting > really hot. We are talking a fair bit of heat here, you can't keep it on > your lap when it warms up. > > So I took it apart yesterday, figuring I should re-do the thermal paste. > During this process, I discovered it's the southbridge ICH chip that's > overheating. There's no cooler at all on this chip (the northbridge and > CPU have heat piping), it's a bare chip. > > Now, I suspect there's not much I can do about this given it being a > laptop and I might have to resign myself to the fact that I'm going to > have to buy a laptop later this year/early next year. > > I am curious though, what causes this chip to overheat, and can I do > something about it? > > I'm using lm_sensors, which doesn't provide a temperature for this > particular chip. I've monitored processes and nothing really stands out. > I've even tried disabling plasma, no luck. > > Dan > > are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'.