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recently my system temperature has been running too hot, 80 C with just firefox and background apps running! and i've expirenced crashes when there is large cpu load b/c system goes above threshold. what could be the possible causes of this?

im not thinking that my heatsink has gotten dirty with dust and the air circlulation is poor.

Delete or uninstall some of the unwanted programs. It might be your anti virus program hogging on your CPU.

My thinkpad CPU processes showed 100% even though my thinkpad is not running any program and in the end, i uninstall all the junk programs from my thinkpad and everything is okay now.

Use the task manager and check which program are hogging on your CPU processes and end those processes and your thinkpad temperature should go down. Check your CPU %.

HTH

that is terrible!!!
CPU temperature shot up to 80degC for X60?

No there are no software problems...
my system is in top form.

Even in windows almost idle, CPU temperature is at 70+ C. Something is obviously [censored] up, most likely on the hardware side.

Do you think I need to clean my heatsink/fan? This machine has been running for months non-stop. I think its gotten dirty... has this happened to anyone before??


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[censored] wrong section of the forum!

sorry

it could be a possibility of your fan fully coated with DUST !!!

What was the normal temp your lappy got before you noticed the high temp?

hi,
i am using an Intel Wireless card.
what if i set the lowest transmit power. what will be happening then, does it help to reduce the APS temperature?

He's got A T60p, but for a to me unknown reason he doubleposted the problem here.
See: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=32689

why is this topic back to the top?

i posted this in the wrong section and re-posted in the correct one.

close this, if mods do that around here.