Re: Laptop overheating on Fedora 29

On 19/02/19 6:27 PM, George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 02:50, Sudheer Satyanarayana < > sudheer(a)techchorus.net <mailto:sudheer@techchorus.net>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed Fedora 29 on Lenovo W540. The laptop overheats up > soon > after booting. > > > You should make sure there isn't an accumulation of dust preventing > proper cooling. At > my work there were a bunch of Lenovo's that would overheat and crash. > A good blast of > canned air in the vents would release a cloud of dust and restore > proper operation. This > had to be done every few months (typical cubicle farm environment). > Initially, I suspected hardware issues like the one you mention. In fact, I sent the device to Lenovo service center for the same issue. The Lenovo folks inspected the hardware and found no issues with fan, cooling, etc. Also, the same device doesn't have the overheating issue on Windows and Ubuntu. It is something specific to Fedora.