Re: any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
  this is another problem i started having with the test version, and
it's still happening now -- on my gateway laptop running fully-updated
f11, the cooling fan keeps spinning up and down with about a 3-second
period.  it's really kind of annoying.  occasionally, it will stop
completely for a bit, then it starts oscillating all over again.
thoughts?

Just a guess here, but F11 is doing more with the CPU and is causing it to exceed the thermal threshold more often which causes the fan to kick in? Have you looked at the system temperatures while this is happening?

rday
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