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Boot ChromeOS on x86_64 PC - Supports Intel CPU/GPU from 8th gen or AMD Ryzen
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Heating issue (Surface Pro 5 (2017)) #931

Open nadlax opened 3 years ago

nadlax commented 3 years ago

I'm using a Surface Pro (2017) core i5. And just a few minutes of light usage seems to result in excessive heating to the point that it's not even viable to hold it. On a Surface Pro 4 i7 that I also own, the fan seems to run all the time, indicating very high cpu usage in both cases. Please help.

saturn-hh commented 3 years ago

I'm using the same Hardware with no problems. Can you give more details: Which version of recovery Image are you using? Have you changed the Brunch options? Which Kernel are using?

ouija commented 2 years ago

I noticed this last night as well while running Brunch ChromeOS for the first time on a Surface Pro 4, fan was running constantly and heat was excessive, with major power drain (as opposed to using FydeOS 14 for the Surface Pro 4 which does not suffer from the same issues)

I was using rammus stable 99.0.4844.57 recovery with default kernel (5.4.163), using pwa, mount_internal_drives, ipts, and no_camera_config options

EDIT: Nevermind, I may be a big dummy. After further research into this, I stumbled across a similar issue posted here which states the culprit being the mount_internal_drives due to the android media scanner constantly indexing the contents of these external drives.

UPDATE: YES! Disabling/unmounting the internal drives (and subsequently having this stop the "android media scanner" process from running) resolved the issue for me -- Fans stopped constantly spinning almost immediately upon doing so, and battery life improved substantially because of this.