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Excessive Fan Operation?

post #1 of 9
6/29/04 at 11:06pm
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i began to feel that my fans were running excessively, so i timed it today.


9:50:00 the fan turns on
9:52:15 the fan turns off
9:55:15 the fan turns on


my fans are clean as i recently cleaned them and didn't find that much of anything in there. the heatsink and CPU chamber are also clean. i have not AS'ed my cpu, and have been unable to get henriks temp monitor to work.

all i have running is a couple firefox windows, photoshop, and kazaa lite along with mcafee and adaware, < 400 MB memory, and < 3% CPU usage. it's just sitting idle


is this excessive? i have a podium style notebook cooler and am using 2 spacers to eleveate it.
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post #2 of 9
6/29/04 at 11:10pm
Kid what was the room temperature at those times?
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post #3 of 9
6/30/04 at 12:54am
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it's warm, around 80 - 85 at most
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post #4 of 9
6/30/04 at 3:22am

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KidVI,

Your systems fans do not seem to work excessively!

My Sager's fans run a little less then half the time. Let's say 1 minute up, 2 minutes down. When it's idle that is...
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post #5 of 9
6/30/04 at 4:09am
Don't stress over it, my fans are almost always on for some reason, even after applying AS5 several times and having a clean heatsink and a room that's reasonably cool
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post #6 of 9
6/30/04 at 4:11am
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thats pretty wierd because i touch the plastic panel on top of the cpu, and it doesn't feel that warm.
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post #7 of 9
6/30/04 at 12:02pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by KidVI
...and have been unable to get henriks temp monitor to work.
Try MobileMeter.
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post #8 of 9
6/30/04 at 2:50pm
80/85F Room temperatures will cause the unit to be about 2/4C higher than in a room that is is 75F or so.

Sounds like it is just "keeping up" and keeping the laptop cool.
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post #9 of 9
6/30/04 at 6:57pm
The plastic on the bottom is well insulated, it never really gets all that hot. Two layer design, metal, then plastic, with a small airspace in between. Makes it somewhat bearable when using on your lap...
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