Alright /g/, I am an absolute retard in need of help. My old

>>60753467
replace the thermal paste on your cpu. It probably dried out. No need to replace the whole OS

>>60753467
90ºc idle
is your fan broken?

>>60753526
anon it's a laptop. I have no idea how to unscrew this sonuvagun open and I'd need to buy tools and thermal paste, whereas downloading a free OS should be pretty immediate and easy. I'll re-apply it once I get everything since I'm building an actual PC anyway, but in the meantime I'd rather opt for a fast solution.

The reason I wanna do this quickly is because my PC shuts off every 5-10 minutes running windows and I REALLY need to write a bible's worth of work in the coming days, so I don't have much time (nor money but that's another story) to spend gearing up

>>60753567
I still hear it humming along, and now that I'm running lubuntu off my external HDD it's noticeably cooler, but I'd still rather dual boot for the extra internal HDD space. My external one is chock full of steam games and work files because hoarding is fun

>>60753601
>CPU is burning itself out because the thermal paste went kaputt somewhere along a decade of life.
>"gee, let's install a lightweight OS to fix the problem, instead of fixing the problem"

Installing a "lightweight OS" won't do anything to help. If your CPU is frying itself at idle, it will keep frying itself at idle, no matter how little RAM your OS consumes (protip: if CPU isn't a bottleneck when doing something in that device, idle usage will be negligible).

Also, installing a lightweight OS also means keeping drivers and firmware to bare minimum, which usually means crappy throttling support, which means it'll only make everything worse.

You're damn right you're a bloody retard, now get your head out of your arse and get the damn comp to someone who can do that job for you, if you're not willing to. Also, ask for a cleanup, since it's probably got more dust accumulated than Tutankhamun's tomb. It's gonna cost you what the tools and thermal paste would. If you're too cheap to pay for even that, then have a good while banging rocks together until they turn into a new laptop.

>>60753864
>Installing a "lightweight OS" won't do anything to help. If your CPU is frying itself at idle, it will keep frying itself at idle, no matter how little RAM your OS consumes

well whoop de fucking doo, lm-sensors' package says I'm running at ~65-70 degrees now in lubuntu. but hey thanks for running around yelling at me for not understanding computers, that really helped

>>60753955
were you using speccy or something to check temps in windows?

>>60753601
>I'd need to buy tools
>he doesn't own a screwdriver

how are you ALIVE?

I'm running kali, I went to the IM-sensors Ubuntu page but if I download it will it work on kali to?
If not there then where?

>>60754232
I forgot the name of the application. something very basic that checks your temp and sets a critical max, as well as letting you tweak your core % usage to make things more bearable on the CPU. worked nicely, but slowed the PC to a crawl so saving anything was a nightmare. Might have to use that and let the CPU usage at ~30% while I root out all the bullshit adware my family may have been putting on the PC's background while I was back home. I suspect that might take a few aeons

>>60754242
I somehow forgot to bring my basic tools with me when I came to canada. I don't know how that happened, but I suspect I may have severe brain damage

>>60754625
>>60754232
found it

https://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/