* Tim [07/03/07 14:49]: > Okay, that's changing the fan speed rather than just turning it off. > Less risky, but still has some risk. There are some systems that use > variable speed fans. But if you have a noisy fan, it could be that the > bearings are shot, and that slowing it down isn't going to help. It > might even make things worse. > This is a completely new Dell system. I got it with XP installed in a partition. I haven't booted much into XP, but once that I did it I noticed that it started as loud as in Linux but after a while it would turn quieter, and wondered why the behaviour was not the same in Linux. I had another system that also would start with fans at full speed in the booting process and turn quieter after a while and keep quiet whatever the amount of time that you used it, with no missbehaviour. > What's the noise? Rattly noises, vibrations, just the normal sound of a > fan spinning? > The noise is just steady but louder, as if the fas was going at full speed. Normal fan spinning but spinning hard. -- Walter Garcia-Fontes Barcelona
