Oh yes, duh. Sorry I don’t know why my brain was thinking I needed to remove the CPU itself lol. I see where it unscrews on the board. I’ll see if I can replace the thermal paste. Why would it have been like this when it was new, though?

I replaced the battery today anyway as I have been wanting to do so.

I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do NOT have the CPU throttled. I was monitoring the temps and it looks like they stay 5-10C cooler when it is throttled. However, the crash occurred most recently when the temp was supposedly “only” 75C, which I would think wouldn’t cause a crash in a laptop.

I don’t think so, but I guess I can’t be totally sure. I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do not have the CPU manually throttled. If I open up a bunch of tabs of YouTube videos, the system hangs. I was monitoring the temps as I was doing so. It looks like I could push the CPU temps into the 80s and briefly into the 90s while doing this. However, when the system crashed, the temp was reading at 75C. My understanding is that this temp shouldn’t trigger a system hang. However, it could be that there was a large spike in temp and the monitoring program (PSensor) wasn’t able to catch up on time before the freeze.

However, I do notice that throttling the CPU seems to make it run 5-10C cooler, so you are probably onto something.

Ohhh I remember Wubi! No need to boot from an install media and you can install it entirely under Windows. That method of installing a dual boot never seemed to get super popular and I guess based on the OSes listed in that article, it seems pretty dated and not updated. I’m kind of curious to know whether or not it still works tbh.

Memtest passes!

Is it even possible to remove and reset the CPU on a laptop? I’m kind of ignorant in doing that.

Essentially any laptop I have had has had a tendency to overheat (shitty design or just a limitation of laptops I guess), but I need to get some better temp monitoring software.

I exclusively use wall power, but I use the battery for a backup. It runs on the original battery.

Again, these issues have been present since the thing was brand new, so it’s not simply that the battery is old. But you might be on to something with the voltage being wonky. On some occasions maybe only less than a year into its life, the computer would give me a pre-OS error about the battery when I booted the laptop without the AC adapter. It would boot and charge normally so I just ignored it and the errors were infrequent…I never actually connected the two. It hasn’t shown me that error in years at this point now. You think that this is related?

Thank you. This is a handy list to parse through.