Laptop Freezes

[KBD]

Those temps are perfect, better than mine.
What I would do, if you have another drive handy, or even a usb stick with at least 16gb storage, is do a full install of of MX on another drive and see if you are still having an issue. I'm wondering if your hard drive is acting up. Also is it just freezing up with Firefox, or across your apps?
Typically I would think video driver issue, firefox issue if it only happens with firefox, cpu only if overheating or low spec, which your computer is not. You have at least 4gb ram? I think that's what these machines come with.

[rokytnji.1]

Just a update from me. I backed up the 320gig secondary drive on mine and erased everything. The freeze-up is on the 120 gig seagate drive. Both are IDE.

Funny thing is. As long as I don't turn the computer off. Everything is fine. Only after it sits powered down for a day or 2. I have been keeping up with updates on the 120 gig drive. Where MX sits.

Been doing other bike projects. So procrastinating on installing from one 120 gig drive to the other 320 gig gig drive. Since it runs fine. As Long as I don't turn it off and let it sit for a day or 2.

I am not sure if it is any good or not. But when I tore apart my dish network receiver. Its a ide hard drive in it. So I might swap out the 120 gig seagate and trash it.
Maybe I can watch the stored videos on it with VLC?

[Krissharm]

To be clear - this happens when the laptop is underload. I was actually playing a game. I expected it to be RAM but looking at conky the CPU and RAM usage is not even half way. However the laptop does get hot. I assumed it was that.

[chrispop99]

Have you tried my suggestion of having the temperatures shown in the panel, so you can get some actual figures of temperatures under load?

Chris

[Krissharm]

Have you tried my suggestion of having the temperatures shown in the panel, so you can get some actual figures of temperatures under load?

Chris

Sorry - yes I did use conky to show the temp and it did reach 90 degrees. (i'm sorry I assume you mean conky when you say panel?)

[chrispop99]

No, not Conky.

The vertical bar (unless you have moved it) that runs up the left of the screen. You can add and remove items from it. Right-click the Panel > Panel > Add New Items, then type 'sensor' in the search box. Click 'Sensor plug in', click 'Add', then close the dialogue.

You will have an addition item on the panel that you can configure to show things like temperatures. (Ignore the message about HDD; you only need this plug-in whilst fault-finding. You can right-click and delete it later.)

Try running things that cause the shut-down and monitor the temperatures.

One other thing - is this a laptop with dual graphics cards? If you don't know, show us the output in a terminal of the following:

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inxi -G

Chris

[KBD]

X220 is a 7 year old machine at this point. Certain video games may be a bit much for it. I've never hit 90C but I don't run games on my X220. It might help if you max out the ram at 16gb, but that old cpu may just be overmatched by the games you are running on it. It is possible you could upgrade the cpu, might be worth checking out the r/thinkpad reddit and ask the folks there about it.

[cyrilus31]

When you have an issue, please provide hardware information thanks to "Quick Info".
Changing thermal compound is sometimes the only way to reduce the CPU temp.

[catsarekacamp]

If you have an intel laptop, make sure you have thermald installed. it helps alot with temps, especially under load.

[Krissharm]

When you have an issue, please provide hardware information thanks to "Quick Info".
Changing thermal compound is sometimes the only way to reduce the CPU temp.

System: Host: x220 Kernel: 4.13.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon December 15, 2017
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 4291F52 v: ThinkPad X220 serial: N/A
Mobo: LENOVO model: 4291F52 serial: N/A UEFI [Legacy]: LENOVO v: 8DET73WW (1.43 )
date: 10/12/2016
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0.7 Wh condition: 91.7/93.2 Wh (98%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-2520M type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 2968 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2968 2: 3136 3: 2892
4: 2990
Graphics: Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2) driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.13.0-1-amd64
Network: Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: down mac: f0f1:9c:21:55
Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 08:11:96:83:d7:84
Drives: HDD Total Size: 232.89 GiB used: 131.84 GiB (56.6%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: 00000 size: 29.81 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 232.89 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 226.23 GiB used: 131.84 GiB (58.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3797
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 235 Uptime: 3m Memory: 11.52 GiB used: 939.1 MiB (8.0%) Shell: init
inxi: 3.0.00


apologies - thought I had.