It's extremely low tech but I'd try pointing a fan at it and sitting it on one (or more) of those ice packs. That should keep it cool long enough to install. Just plan for condensation. <div><br></div><div>Brian<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jim Philips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Just trolling for possible solutions: My laptop has an ATI Radeon<br>
video card. Unless the Catalyst driver is installed, it quickly starts<br>
to overheat. I messed up my Ubuntu install, so now I want to<br>
reinstall. But when I try, about 50% of the files get copied to disk<br>
and then it slows down and finally shuts off due to overheating. This<br>
wasn't a problem earlier, but I think with each thermal shutdown, the<br>
laptop gets a little more susceptible to overheating. Once Catalyst is<br>
installed, everything works fine. But I can only install Catalyst if I<br>
complete the install of Ubuntu. Any workarounds anybody can think of?<br>
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