Ok, I have done a lot of testing with the cpu temperature.
It turns out that none of the alphaOS releases has been working ok on my laptop.
And besides my laptop I now have another case: my wife's netbook.
Both computers tested with alphaOS 4, 5, 6 and 7 and neither have the CPU fan working up until when the CPU enters a critical state.
But then I tested ArchPup 13.2 on them and both work fine.
CPU temperature well under the limits (around 45C and 50C) and I can clearly hear the CPU fan always working silently and smoothly. The CPU fan only works faster from 50C onwards when I stress the CPU.
AlphaOS has been running kernel 3.8 and 3.9. ArchPup uses kernel 3.4. Don't know if it means anything.
simargl can you think of anything that can be causing this?
TIA
Cheers
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