Laptop overheating, causing thermal shutdown during prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Feb 3, 2012 8:37 AM EDT
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I've had my Lenovo G555 laptop (AMD Athlon II at 2.1 GHz) for nearly two years, and recently I've been experiencing thermal shutdowns while running prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks in Debian Squeeze. Perhaps ironically but probably totally explainable, watching Flash video is not one of these tasks. I can watch Flash-delivered content in Hulu all night, and the Lenovo is fine.

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