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Eric
Asked: 2016-09-02 04:44:43 +0800 CST

On Ubuntu 16.04 ATI/AMD gpu is burning?

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I just upgraded from ubuntu 12.04 to 16.04 and my [AMD/ATI] RV770 [Radeon HD 4850] is getting very hot : 104°C !! The fans are spinning at full speed all the time !! The problem is that there is no activity on my PC : nothing is moving on the screen, there is 98% of Idle on CPU.

As I have a dual boot, if I boot windows on the same computer : all is getting back to normal : temperature and fan speed decrease

What should I do to not have my GPU burnt ?

16.04

1 Answers

  1. I found a workaround by adding the kernel parameters radeon.dpm=1 amdgpu.dpm=1:

    Edit the file /etc/default/grub (e.g. by running sudo nano /etc/default/grub) and change the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to :

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.dpm=1 amdgpu.dpm=1"

    After that, update GRUB configuration using 

    sudo update-grub

    and reboot for the changes to take effect.

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