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Thinkpad shuts down after 10 minutes of heavy use

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Mar 15, 20263117 views
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Problem

Less than two years ago, I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad R500. When using the CPU heavily, it sometimes decides to reboot (with Ubuntu briefly showing "shutdown" message). A Linux widget shows me the CPU temperature. The PC usually reboots when the temperature of the first core gets over 100°C, but some…

Error Output

cpufreq-selector -c 0 -f 800000
cpufreq-selector -c 1 -f 800000
sudo rmmod thinkpad_acpi
sudo modprobe thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1
sudo thinkfan -n -…

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Fix for: Thinkpad shuts down after 10 minutes of heavy use

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Forget Thinkpad for a moment, It isn't normal for any laptop to crash when at 100% cpu for a long period of time, but it is normal for nearly all machines to shut down, if any monitored component reaches a critical temperature. It simply means your …

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