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[Dan LeVasseur <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 4810tz and the fan runs all of the time.  I can't hear it at all
though even in the most silent of rooms.

-Dan

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM, cyberfish <cyberfish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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