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

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I think there is probably a physical cause. It gets too easy to blame the operating system for physical device issues. The fan speed is controlled in part by temperature sensors on the CPU and feedback from the fan circuit itself. I think all the fan speed controls are managed by motherboard parts, not by the operating system interacting with those parts.

Bob


On 07/04/2009 08:14 PM, 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?

rday
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