fan never shuts off ... my fan seems to never shut off anymore. I use to run my laptop all day and it would pretty much only kick on when I was using it. But ...

Bozorg · 09-22-2005, 07:50 AM

my fan seems to never shut off anymore. I use to run my laptop all day and it would pretty much only kick on when I was using it. But now it is on all the time any ideas on how to stop it from being on all time

wimme · 09-23-2005, 09:20 AM

its probably a lot of dust in your heatsink, one of my friends had the same problem, he took it out himself but damaged his laptop a bit by doing that.
but it solved his problem

09-22-2005, 07:50 AM	#1
Bozorg Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 33 Credits: -338	fan never shuts off my fan seems to never shut off anymore. I use to run my laptop all day and it would pretty much only kick on when I was using it. But now it is on all the time any ideas on how to stop it from being on all time __________________ Laptop Acer Ferrari 3400 Athlon 64 3000+ 1.25 GB RAM 70GB ATI Radeon 9700 128MB 3DMark03 - 3034

09-23-2005, 09:20 AM	#2
wimme Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 49 Credits: -333	its probably a lot of dust in your heatsink, one of my friends had the same problem, he took it out himself but damaged his laptop a bit by doing that. but it solved his problem __________________ Acer Aspire 1692 P M 1.7GHZ/1024 DDR II RAM/100GB /ATI X700 128MB + Netgear WG511T (messing around with Kanotix, love it) MIONE Brew ASUS P4P800 SE/ PIV 3.0 GHz Prescott/ 420 GB / 1GB XMS DDR/ Radeon 9800 XT

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