Overheating R60e

[bmk]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to ask for your opinions - what can be wrong with my R60e. It started to overheat since I've installed Windows on it. Previously I've been happy OpenSUSE 10.2 user. It came up recently that I need also Windows, so I've made plain simple dualboot intallation, with OpenSUSE 10.2 and Windows XP.

After that, computer started to overheat. I guess it's something with the software, as it is overheating only when I work on Linux.

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$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature
temperature:             85 C

On Windows, temperature stays around 49 C, jumps to 70 at the most if the CPU is heavily loaded.

Any ideas what may be wrong? I didn't do any BIOS tweak or updates. Feel free to ask for additional information if needed.

Thank you a lot for help with this!

[agarza]

What do you mean overheating? Does it feel hot, or the laptop turns off due to excessive heat? Have you checked the max temp your laptop reach