You said earlier this Gateway unit is refurbished? I wonder if it is a
physical fan or a power supply problem. I'm pretty accustomed to
EMachines and Gateway units coming with the cheapest possible power
supplies. Which go bad, it seems. I tend to plug even my laptop power
brick into a good UPS unit rather than the wall outlet itself, because
in my area, power spikes and sags are pretty routine.
Bob
On 04/10/2009 07:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(while i'm on a roll ...)
on this gateway m-1626, shortly after f11 beta starts to run, the
cooling fan kicks into this regular oscillation with a period of about
4 seconds -- speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down ... you get the
idea.
to test that it's not a HW issue, i rebooted and hopped into the
BIOS and let it sit there for several minutes, whereupon it ran nice
and smoothly the entire time.
as soon as i rebooted fedora and got to my GNOME desktop, the
oscillation started up again. occasionally, it will calm down briefly
but that doesn't last long.
anyone else seeing this?
rday
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