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[Jim <jimbojones443@xxxxxxxxx>]

I re-read your post and realized I might experience the same noise. The
pitch of the whoosh increases slightly whenever the hard drive is
accessed in short bursts.

Hey, also, have you used the machine in Windows and do you get the same
results?

Sorry I should have read your post better the first time.

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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