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[Jim <jimbojones443@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry to reply because I don't have a TZ, but just the 4810T. Maybe
I can help though, and describe the sound of what I know to be the CPU
fan. But I guess I may be foolishly assuming that the TZ has another fan
for the GPU. I was wondering though, if you could be more specific about
the fan noise. 

I mean, does it sound like a quiet wooshhhh? Or does it sound like it
might be at ultra-maximum-jet-engine speed? Can you hear the motor in
it? When mine speeds up to a high speed I can hear the whine of the
motor while it's accelerating, it's kind of like a spinning up HD, but I
don't think it actually is the HD. 

Usually in Linux mine is a very quiet woosh, always on, which I can hear
very well in quiet rooms only. 

I just installed Win 7 (the free upgrade, I swear) to test this very
issue, so I'll let you know my experience there.

Jim

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 21:25 +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> That clarifies things a lot. So most likely I've got a defective unit. 
> Still, it might affect only models with an ATI graphics card. Could 
> anyone with a Timeline with ATI graphics comment? Do you experience a 
> noisy fan?
> 
> Burkhard
> 
> Dan LeVasseur schrieb:
> > 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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