From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.23] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.23] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2174910 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:22:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4B5E6E13.6020601@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:22:43 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T60 runs pretty hot References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, Neil... On 01/25/10 04:58 pm, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote : > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:38:03 -0500, "Lewis G Rosenthal" > wrote: > > >> I have a couple X60's and X61's in the field, and those seem to be doing >> okay in terms of fan noise & proper speed throttling (under XP; I've >> never even attempted eCS on one of those models!). I also have a >> relatively fresh build (XP) on an SL400, so we'll see if that has a >> similar fan experience to the R400's (although that model seems to have >> some other issues with it). >> > > I, too have an X60. After the success with the T60, I grabbed an X60, because > that would really be a perfect laptop for me. But even though XP runs just > fine, eCS shuts the machine down after a few minutes. I didn't know why it > shuts down, but I bet it is a problem with heating. > > Could be. You'd think that if it were some OS incompatibility, it wouldn't boot at all. Still, there's not as much room for airflow in such a tight case as th X series, and if we don't have adequate control over the fan, I would expect it to get hot and shut itself off. > I fixed it a different way, after seaching open tickets on eComStation.com. I > switched to the W4 kernel. I lose one CPU, but the machine runs normally. (But > still have bad system sounds, like some T60 users on this list.) > > How about OS2APIC? Any luck with that and SMP? > I wonder if the T60 would run cooler with the W4 kernel. It's too bad to run > only one CPU, but I would be satisfied with good eCS stability with only one > CPU. I may go back to the X60 and try SMP with cpuspeed, because cpuspeed is > still working well on my T60. > > I suppose if you ran only one core on the T60 it would run cooler. It makes sense, at least. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------