I believe that AMD chips do not go into idle mode as readily as Intel. When I was running XP I had a small program which kicked it into idle, thus reducing the operating temperature from 50 to about 35. Sorry, but I am now running Linux and have zero problems (even in Australia). Colin On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:05, guru shashi wrote:
Hello,
I have been using suse10 an acer amd64, turion laptop.
Until recently not noticed that my laptop getting over heated. I am running an Suse 10.0 64-bit version on the box. Has anyone identified/noticed if things work better on 32-bit versions or the previous versions running on 64bit box. I am quite perplexed and helpless with this. Also the fan doesn't seem to run all the time (though when plugged in or when on powersave ) ... also just goes on and off during recharge.
and i never run it for a strech of more than 4 to 6 hours.
All suggestions are welcome.
-- Thanx ... Guru