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Gaurav Lodhi
Asked: 2020-08-28 05:01:56 +0800 CST

Overheating and not charging problem when I installed Ubuntu 20.04

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After Installing Ubuntu 20.04 I am having an overheating problem and my charging stops because of it even in the idle state of the processors. But with windows neither my charging stops nor my laptop overheats. I was using Ubuntu 19.04 before 20.04 and there wasn't this kind of problem. To avoid this situation I'm using windows, that I don't like. Give me a solution if you have overcome this kind of problem. I am attaching the system monitors's pic to show you what is the situation of my resources and at this instant, I am facing this problem.

Here is the image of the system monitor

laptop battery overheating charging 20.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    After a constructive discussion with my IIIT Delhi colleagues. I found a solution that is:-

    Ubuntu 20.04 takes GPU support by default for rendering and other works, So It installs GPU drivers at the installation itself. My computer has NVIDIA GPU which was being used every time. That was the root cause of overheating. So I Opened the NVIDIA driver NVIDIA X Server setting and select the PRIME Profile option and select the option NVIDIA On-Demand mode.

    It supports Dynamic switching of NVIDIA GPU when required.

    I am Using HP 0077tx machine with i5 8th generation with NVIDIA GPU support. But this is a generic solution for all kinds of machines and GPUs only you have to find the GPU on-demand mode for your GPU and it will work.

    Now It reduced Power consumption and eliminate the problem of Overheating and not charging.

    Upvote this solution if you found the solution helpful so other people can find it easy to overcome their problems too.

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  2. I have Dell G3 laptop and NVIDIA graphics card installed in it. I recently dual booted my laptop with UBUNTU 20.04.1 and while using it, I faced the overheating problem and fast discharge of battery.

    To over come this, go change the NVIDIA X Server Settings. Step 1: Open NVIDIA X Server Settings Step 2: Select PRIME Profiles Step 3: Select NVIDIA On-Demand Note: Using the Intel(PowerSavingMode) didn't resolve the issue.

    After changing this settings, please restart the device. Once you restart the device, you can monitor the temperature in the NVIDIA X Server Settings. The temperature shown here will greatly reduce.

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