Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm using Lenovo Z370 laptop and I
made a dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10. I noticed that
since I started using Ubuntu 13.10 my laptop frequently
overheats and it powers off because of the excess heat. Any
explanation? Thank you so much... Noland  share|improve this
question It may be that your fans are being blocked - try going
on more smooth surfaces in cool rooms. Don't put the laptop on
smothering things like duvets. –  Novine Nov 1 '13 at 12:44 I
had this problem - the fans were blocked. Does it run fine in
Windows/another OS? –  whiskers75 Nov 1 '13 at 13:48 add comment
3 Answers  What happened: Overheating can be caused by several
factors.    1. You might be running CPU/GPU intensive programs
that are very demanding on the hardware.   2. There might be
poor ventilation at your workspace.   3. Worse case scenario, it
might be a hardware problem that's causing this.  I took the
liberty of looking up your laptop's specs, the specific model
you're using does not have de