Installing - "WARNING: system temperature too high, shutting down soon"

Hi. I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my older HP Pavillion dv7 laptop (intend to replace Vista with it), but during installation I get the message that the system temperature is too high, and that it's shutting down? Other operating systems can be installed on the computer without problems - the fans do scream when installing but not more than I'd expect from as intensive a task as installing an OS.

I'm new to FreeBSD; I apologize if I don't know at all what I'm doing. Learning things. Any help or ideas of what to do would be greatly appreciated.

wblock@

Developer

Nov 20, 2013

#2

Some HP systems have ACPI that hates FreeBSD. Make sure you have the latest BIOS. If that does not help, the freebsd-acpi mailing list may be able to make better suggestions.

OP

Softwave

Nov 21, 2013

Thread Starter
#3

Thank you for your response; I finally did manage to get it installed by disabling ACPI in the boot settings menu.

Possibly not the wisest thing to do but I am just experimenting on an older computer that'd otherwise be gathering dust.