HP DM1-4027 Netbook locks up in Linux due to Thermal Event

1 January, 2020 · Reading time: ~1 minute(s) (168 words) techsupport dm1 notes

Sometimes in Linux I’ve noticed that the laptop will lock up, often in high CPU situations. This appears to be caused by some sort of thermal support (or lack of) and after some research, you can disable the thermal support within the OS and allow the BIOS to take over instead.

This is done by editing the grub entry to add thermal.off=1 at the end of the linux boot line which would result in the following (replacing {uuid} with your own UUID):

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