[Thinkpad] T20 CPU temp

[gwydion]

Thanks, that was just what I was looking for.  I've tried this utility on 
a t20, t30 and t40, and it seems to work an all of them.  It also confirms 
what I thought before - the T20 will overheat if I have the CPU fully 
loaded for an extended period.

Too bad I don't read Japanese.  It would be interesting to play with some 
of the configuration options, but he labels are in Japanese characters.

			Art

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:20:09 -0500, Shingo Tamaru <stamaru at andrew.cmu.edu> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> This is really a slow response, but I found the answer for Art's
> question quite recently.
>
> I also upgraded the CPU in my T20 to 1GHz P3, and have been
> looking for a utility to measure the CPU temperature. I tried
> SiSoftware Sandra and SpeedFan, but they were found not to
> work with T20.
> (Sandra cannot read the CPU temperature on many notebooks
> due to architecture difference with desktops.)
>
> I recently found a free utility which shows the CPU temperature,
> CPU clock, battery charge rate and HDD temperature, named
> 'MobileMeter'.
> http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/8259/
> Yes, this is Japanese, sorry if you cannot read this page.
> The author says that this program is designed only for Japanese
> environment and no guarantee for other lauguages. However,
> I tried this program in English WinXP and it worked just fine.
> Since this program is just a small exe file with no registry use,
> this should do no harm to your system even if it doesn't work.
> So why don't you try the zip file available from this URL?
> http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/8259/release/0200/mm0200.zip
> (One caution: This program requires administrator prevaledge
> when launching.) If it works, you got a handy tool. If not,
> just delete it.
>
> Hope it works for you too.
> Shingo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gwydion" <gwydion at courvilles.com>
> To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:31 PM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] T20 CPU temp
>
>
>> I have a T20 that I upgraded with a 1G P3.  I use it with a
>> simulator program that puts a pretty heavy load on the CPU, and
>> have had it shut down a couple times due, I think, to
>> overheating.
>>
>> Is there any way to read the CPU temp on a T20?  I want to try a
>> couple of cooling ideas to see if they help, but I'd like more
>> direct data on the temp than just waiting to see if it shuts
>> down.
>>
>> Art