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

[Robert L Cochran]

"...new out of the box" does not mean "it works perfectly". And I don't 
see postings on this list from others with fan speed issues which would 
tend to indicate a repeatable software issue.

Bob




On 07/05/2009 02:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
> ... snip ...
>
>    
>> I'll look into this, thanks. On the other hand I've opened up enough
>> system cases (including laptops) and cleaned more than enough dust
>> bunnies or coffee spills to realize fan speeds can have very
>> physical causes indeed. Don't think of the fan as "just" controlled
>> by operating system software. There is usually a physical reason why
>> the speed varies and that ought to be the first thing to check
>> before suspecting the operating system.
>>      
>
>    this behaviour has been there since day one of installing f11 beta
> on this laptop, when it was new out of the box.
>
> rday
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