The continuing saga ...

[unixronin]

... of the M5309 laptop continues, here in the Department of Redundancy Department.  Even after replacing the heatsink compound in the M5309, it still has continuous thermal problems in this weather.  The cooling design is totally inadequate.  Although it's no longer overheating its CPU into emergency thermal shutdown, about 15-20 minutes of running at full CPU speed will overheat the machine as a whole to the point of getting random memory errors every few minutes.  The only way to make it run stably has been to remove all the access panels on the bottom of the case and set up a fan blowing directly into the case. With that done, it's most of the way to having a functional X desktop installed, but it's going to be moot if it can't run for longer than twenty minutes in summer without overheating itself.  At this point, I'm mainly just continuing to work on the install for the sake of achieving victory.

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[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Hm, after reading this and your previous post, I may want to disassemble RangingDrake for a cleanup, as pushing it has resulted in possibly temp-related wonkiness. And setting it first on a horizontal box-fan, and later a 'proper' laptop-stand with cooling fan made a big difference when running games and such.