On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, sly wrote: > i have 2 laptops: a dell inspiron 8000 (p3) and a dell inspiron 5100 (p4). the > p3 has fc2 and runs perfect! on the other side the p4 had fc2 and had > overheating problems. now i installed fc3 and it still has overheating > problems. the fen runs continuously and the temperature is at 68C average. > sometimes it reaches the critical 80C and it shuts off. i wasn't able to find > any helpful info on the web or i just didn't know where to look. any helpful > info would be appreciated. Well - P4 chips are power hungry - so that could be an unsolveable problem. Is it a mobile P4? If so - it should support speedstep. Does it work? Try the following: # grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz cpu MHz : 598.068 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver centrino # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor userspace If its not working - check the following on how it set if up for P-III. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg04371.html You might have to change 'speedstep-smi' to 'peedstep-ich' for P4 Satish
