The Engines Canna Take Much More, Captain!

[elfs]

Wow, things you never want to see on your laptop. This was caused by Prey::

Aug  4 22:41:01 chi Critical temperature reached (100 C), shutting down.  
Aug  4 22:41:01 chi acpid: received event "thermal_zone THM1 000000f0 00000001" 
Aug  4 22:41:01 chi acpid: notifying client 5278[0:1000] 
Aug  4 22:41:01 chi acpid: executing action "/etc/acpi/default.sh thermal_zone THM1 000000f0 00000001" 

And then the computer just went.... off.

Comments

[tagryn]

If I may, can I recommend Antec's laptop cooler? I use one with my Compaq laptop and have never had a problem with overheating. Quiet, too.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I may have to try that out. It doesn't happen often, but man it's scary that some heavy processing with both the CPU and the GPU can do that.