Patent ID: 8214658

Claim:
A method, in a data processing system, for mitigating effects of delamination of components in the data processing system, the method comprising: receiving a set of signals from one or more sensors in the data processing system; determining whether a first signal indicates that a threshold in a plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded; responsive to the first signal indicating that the first threshold in the plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded, determining whether the first threshold is a low temperature fan threshold or a high temperature fan threshold; responsive to the first threshold being the low temperature fan threshold, decreasing a fan speed of the data processing system in order to increase a temperature of the data processing system thereby mitigating effects of delamination of the components in the data processing system; determining whether a second signal indicates that a second threshold in the plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded; responsive to the second signal indicating that the second threshold in the plurality of thresholds has been reached or exceeded, determining whether the second threshold is a low temperature threshold or a high temperature threshold; and responsive to the second threshold being the low temperature threshold, initiating one of a plurality of actions to increase the temperature of the data processing system thereby mitigating effects of delamination of the components in the data processing system, wherein the low temperature fan threshold is set at a predetermined level higher than the low temperature threshold to account for a response time required to control the fan speed.