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    HGL30 overheating with SSD?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by kjetilk, Oct 27, 2011.

  1. kjetilk

    kjetilk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all!

    I just bought a new ocz vertex plus SSD for my aging Compal HGL30, hoping to give it another couple of years useful life.

    I had some really severe problems installing Kubuntu 11.10 on it. It would install fine, but after booting it up, partitions would fail mysteriously when using writing lots of data (e.g. a few hundred MBs of Debian packages), eventually the root partition would fail somehow too and make the system unbootable.

    Funnily, it all appeared to fix itself when I took the box to work out in the cold Norwegian autumn... It then ran well for a while, but the kernel just threw me some errors and remounted the filesystem read-only (as configured in the fstab), after downloading all my email.

    The left palm rest gets really hot. It has done so in the past too, and that has lead me to the idea that perhaps there is something there overheating and causing problems for the SSD. The SSD itself shouldn't be overheating, it is specified to use just 5W on use, but what else is under the left palm rest? Is this even possible, or do you have any other ideas as to what might be happening here?
     
    kjetilk, Oct 27, 2011
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    Dr.Colossos Notebook Evangelist

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    Copying data should not make it heat up noticeable.

    Are you sure it's not the CPU or GPU that, for whatever reason, heat-up?

    Good Luck!
     
    Dr.Colossos, Oct 28, 2011
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  3. kjetilk

    kjetilk Notebook Enthusiast

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    CPU heatup would be reasonable indeed. I presume the CPU is sitting by the fan? In which case, it is not very hot. What is sitting underneath the left palm rest, apart from the SSD? I suspect that may be the culprit...

    After yesterdays' crash, the filesystem is again not recognized by grub2, so the system is now unbootable again... :-( I gotta figure this out...
     
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    Not necessarily - the heat sink leads from the CPU to the fan. I do not know the HGL30 at all ... but see here ...

    http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b385/mtkokaly/HGL30-8.jpg

    (This is linked in a thread in here, just do a google search for HGL30 pics)

    Also, get a tool to monitor CPU/GPU/HDD temps.

    Good luck
     
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    kjetilk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Right, but that doesn't tell me whats above the HDD slot!

    Yeah, I'll see if smartmontools can help.

    Thanks for the help, and if anyone else has any idea whats between the SSD and the left palm rest, I'm still very interested!
     
    kjetilk, Oct 28, 2011
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