Ubuntu

heating up on startup

Asked by -Mr.S-

i have an acer aspire 4730z and i just installed a dual boot of vista and ubuntu last week.
i have been using vista for 2 years and decided to switch to ubuntu because it seemed to be the most popular and easy to use lunix distro.
Now that i installed it, everytime i boot up in ubuntu, without touching anything, it says its using 30% of my processor!
the fan is on and its pretty loud from startup to shutdown/sleep, none stop!
open a couple(5) of tabs in chrome, gets up to 50% to 70%.
its getting annoying and if i open more tabs the computer gets laggy and reachs 100% cpu use.
ubuntu is awsome, if it wasnt for the heating up 5min after startup issue.
any help is appreciated
thanks

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Acer systems are cheap use cheap heat management systems and can be a real pain to get nice.

I'd log a bug, you should also experiment with boot options and also make sure you have the latest BIOS

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-Mr.S- (mr.s) said : 		#2

thanks
i was going to update my bios sometime this week, but i just did it and now on startup its under 3%.
with 10 chrome tabs on it maxes at 30%.
for moment there i thought i had to switch to vista again, phew!

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-Mr.S- (mr.s) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.