Bug 463985 - early installation thermal shutdown on hp pavilion tx2500 laptop
Summary: early installation thermal shutdown on hp pavilion tx2500 laptop
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-25 19:18 UTC by Frank Ch. Eigler
Modified: 2013-02-25 16:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-25 16:11:33 UTC
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2008-09-25 19:18:00 UTC
Description of problem:
Very early during installation, hp pavilion tx2500 laptop (dual-core
amd64 turion 2ghz, 4gb ram) suffers critical temperature shutdowns.
One or two anaconda queries is all the machine can take, even if
started from a power-off state with normal room temperature.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.18-116.el5

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
boot off of RHEL5.3* installation iso/dvd.
  
Actual results:
thermal shutdown within a minute or two at most

Expected results:
happy installation

Additional info:
BIOS setting for "fan always on" enabled vs. disabled makes no difference.

I am not able to get a boot log since the kernel does not appear to
stay alive long enough to gather it.

Comment 1 Prarit Bhargava 2008-09-30 12:57:18 UTC
Frank does this happen with earlier versions of RHEL5?

P.

Comment 2 Richard Schwarting 2009-12-08 06:49:12 UTC
I'll note that my HP Pavilion tx2500 also shuts down randomly presumably due to heat in Fedora 12 and did in Fedora 11.

Comment 3 ritz 2010-01-29 17:27:30 UTC
This behaviour is reproducible on TX2 1005, on rawhide ( F13 ) . Seems that cpu is running at max, until after I login to desktop, following which laptop runs fine. This issue is not seen with Windows Vista.

Comment 4 Prarit Bhargava 2013-02-25 16:11:33 UTC
Closing ... 

The RHEL5.9 release marks the beginning of Production Phase 2 of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.  Essentially, there will be no more software
enhancements and hardware support enhancements will be limited to those
that are easy to incorporate.
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

P.


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