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[cyberfish <cyberfish@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is certainly not normal, unless you have very very good ears.

I have a 3810t (intel graphics) and I can't hear the fan AT ALL most of the
time, even when I put my ear to the palm rest. I don't think it's even
spinning most of the time.

I can kind of hear the fan if I run CPU-intensive programs (for more than a
few seconds).


On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:56:02 +0100, Burkhard Ritter
<burkhard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I got a new 3810tg and at least to me the fan seems to be too noisy. 
> It's running all the time and the best I've managed so far is that the 
> base level is quite acceptable but every three seconds or so the fan 
> spins faster for a very short time (much shorter than one second). I 
> find this very irritating. This was with the ati gpu. With the intel 
> graphics card the fan spins faster all the time and the noise level is 
> comparable to this six year old A31 Thinkpad sitting on my desk. To be 
> honest, this is not what I expected when I bought an "ultra low voltage" 
> notebook, so my question is whether this fan noise is normal or if I got 
> a defective unit. Also, are there differences between the 3810t and the 
> 3810tg regarding the fan noise?
> 
> Thanks,
> Burkhard
> 
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