Messages in this thread | | | From | Bart Samwel <> | Subject | Re: Noise with 2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 ) | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:36:53 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 14:58, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro wrote: > > When the 2.6.0 inits in my laptop it becomes reaaallyyy noisy. > > Why ? > > If it's the fans, it's the BIOS reading CPU temperature of 85 C, > which is not true. It seems a Fn-Z press resets this reading to > sane values. You can look at the temperature reading and fan > state with i8kutils. > > Atleast that's what a Dell Latitude C640 that I had did.
Might it be that the hardware reports 85 F instead of 85 C maybe? That's about (85-32)*0.55 = about 29 C, which may be more realistic when you're just booting it up. :)
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