On 13.06.2012 09:04, agraham wrote: > On 06/12/2012 06:52 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: >> I've just installed Fedora 17 (x86_64) on my Dell XPS 8300 with Intel >> Core i7-2600 and I noticed a very strange behavior: CPU and/or >> motherboard fans are constantly working at very high speed which makes a >> lot of noise (fan speed is at the same level it was right after powering >> on). >> >> I previously had Ubuntu 12.xx and Debian 6 installed and no such fault >> was present. Is it really something so advanced to have the ability to >> reduce fan speed that Fedora devels are unable to accomplish in default >> installation of stable system release? >> >> I imagine, I have to download and install some additional packages or >> even patch and recompile the kernel but I can't find any info about this >> on the Internet. I'd be grateful if anyone could help me or point me to >> some solution before my fan breaks down prematurely. >> >> >> Mateusz Marzantowicz > > There may be processes running that you don't need that are consuming > CPU or even some process hogging the CPU. > > You may have some control of fan speed via the BIOS, not sure, also see: > http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/p/19368332/19836135.aspx > > > Albert. Thanks for the reply. I'm now trying to identify which fan is noisy. The problem is that I already have latest BIOS update installed and week ago on Ubuntu 12.04 I had no such problem with fans going to fast. My load avg is 2.0 at max (3 kvms running but not so busy) and long term CPU utilization is below 5%-10%. The only difference is that previously I had AMD Catalyst driver installed for Radeon HD 5750 and now I'm using the default Open Source driver, so I'll be investigating graphics at first. I also noticed that video card is warmer than other parts of my set but it might be a false alarm. Thanks anyway for the reply. Mateusz Marzantowicz -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
