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Is your Toshiba laptop noisy?

post #1 of 17
3/3/06 at 10:54pm
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I bought a Toshiba laptop a week ago from Bustbuy. Do you know the deal? Centrino processor 1.86G,120G hard drive, 1G momery and 14' was sold 999.9$. But I find its inside fan is really noisy (have compared it with Dell 700m, Asus, IBM) especially when I turn it on or work on it after an hour. If I work on it a little longer, the booming sound from the fan would not stop any more. Do anyone else who are using Toshiba laptop(any type) have the same problem?
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post #2 of 17
3/3/06 at 11:13pm
Is it that your fan stays on all the time or that the fan is some decibles louder than other laptops?
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post #3 of 17
3/4/06 at 1:40am
No, haven't had that problem. Get it replaced.
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post #4 of 17
3/4/06 at 2:14pm
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As long as it runs a program, it makes decibles louder noise like that of the hair dryer. I wonder whether it is normal for the fan in Toshiba laptop?
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post #5 of 17
3/4/06 at 2:31pm
What model? My M55-S325 1.73GHz fan hardly ever runs and I barely hear it whenever it does run.

Mike
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post #6 of 17
3/4/06 at 9:44pm

Noisy Toshiba

I've had three M35X models that were somewhat noisy. Not so much when the fan was running at full speed but when it operated in "low" speed. It kind of growled. The fan was OK it's just that it set up some sort of harmonic that was kind of annoying... Put a Pentium M chip ugrade in one of them and used Notebook Hardware Control to run the CPU at 1.052 Volts. Then the fan seldom came on and when it did it was in full speed and only for a few seconds occasionally. I have a new A105-S1013 1.6 Celeron which was basically the same unit as the original M35X and it doesn't seem to come on as often as the M35X did with the Celeron CPU and when it does it's definitely much quieter. Don't know what else to tell you. I think some fans are just noisier than others. I doubt the fan is actually bad.
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post #7 of 17
3/4/06 at 9:46pm
I have p25 S676 with P43.4Ghz and it can get noisy under a lot of cpu usage
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post #8 of 17
3/4/06 at 10:00pm
You can try and use Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) to undervolt it. My laptop goes into "hair dryer" mode intermittently before undervolting but now is only loud when I play 3D games.
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post #9 of 17
3/4/06 at 10:01pm
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Mine is M55-3512. As long as it runs a program, the sound from the fan will not stop. Hi, Winter War, what size is your hard drive?
I am really angry with Bestbuy service, the submanager's attitude is so bad. She said if she could not hear the noise in the big store, then there was nothing wrong with the laptop. But you know how many people are there in the store, at least 40, talking. Besides,lots of TVs, computers and other machines were "speaking and singing". She said all defects would be tested out in their store. Ridiculous!
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post #10 of 17
3/4/06 at 10:29pm
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Thank you all! Thank your for the advice, I'll try.
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post #11 of 17
3/4/06 at 11:10pm
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Originally Posted by ATGC
Mine is M55-3512. As long as it runs a program, the sound from the fan will not stop. Hi, Winter War, what size is your hard drive?
It has the 100GB 5400RPM drive. I bought my M55 on sale at BB about 6 months ago. I haven't had any complaints with it so far, but I don't think any BB likes to hear them if there are any.

Could be your fan is just noisier than others. If you can't get satisfaction from your BB, I would try the undervolting with RMCLOCK and see if that works.
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post #12 of 17
3/5/06 at 12:15am
When I run a cpu intense program my fan stays on most of the time and it is fairly noisy. I have a m35x-s311 model. It is a Pentium M. Doing light stuff like checking emails or composing mail the fan hardly comes on
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post #13 of 17
3/5/06 at 5:13am
My M40 can be noisy. but usually it's not too bad. I have undervolted it using RMclock. during light use (email, internet) it comes on just to disspel the heat from the heatsink when it gets too hot, then turns off again.
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post #14 of 17
3/5/06 at 6:03am
Don't try these things, 'cause if you return it and admit you did this they'll screw you out of a return. I say just grab another unit, no healthy laptop makes loud noises like that; not the new ones at least.
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post #15 of 17
3/7/06 at 11:52pm
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I tried Notebook Hardware Control. Now it seems better, not always annoying me. The hard drive temp stays at about 45C.( OK?) I have to say my sister's Asus is much more quiet than this Toshiba.
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post #16 of 17
3/8/06 at 3:19pm
45C is ok. My M70's fan never actually turns on while running on batteries so I'm quite happy with that... Oh, yeah, and undervolted too
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post #17 of 17
3/8/06 at 11:05pm
I own a satelitte m35x-s161 and most of the time its pretty noisy, even when I'm not multi-tasking
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