[nylug-talk] Critical Trip Point - (overheating)

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alex Gill wrote:

> I've been using my Dell C400 (deb) laptop for four years almost daily.  
> Yesterday, after watching a video (flash-based) on youtube.com, with the
> fans blowing hard, I suddenly received the below message written to
> /var/log/messages.  Have readers run into this problem -- heat causing a
> hasty and immediate system halt?
Its not the heat that causes system halt. Its the BIOS telling OS via ACPI 
that its getting hot. OS, in turn does the shutdown.

It is a reasonable and conservative thing to do. Check in bios whether 
there's configurable trip temperature. If you are confident that its not a 
problem, you can disable acpi altogether.