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MPMC

I recently purchased a vaio A series notebook, for the first week or so it was running silent, now it seems to run the fan constantly from the moment it is switched on. Does anyone know why this might be?

alecmorrow

This is exactly why I am on this thread.

My fan runs constantly when I am on the internet, and less requently when i am using other programmes. Quite a lot of the time my CPU is in use at 100%.

I phoned sony and they said anything above 60% was not good, and they suggested that I do a full recovery and send it back to them if necesary. They do a diagnostics with you. I have shied away at the moment for obvious reasons.

I suspect the heat sinks are full of dust....no one, even in Sony, seems to have realised that laptops sit on laps covered with fabrics that have fibers.

How can I inspect the heat sinks to see for my self?

kee-lo_

Alec,

Are you using the internal 56k modem?
Winmodems take a lot of resource.

MPMC

No, not using a modem. The fan is running all the time even when the system has no programs growing.

Thanks anyway.

kee-lo_

Check the settings in Powerpannel too.

sk

I am having the exact same problem. The fan is running very quiet, but still it is running. This shlould not be on a centrino notebook. Does anybody have the same problem?

robpaxton

The higher speed Pentium M's i.e. those above about 1.5Ghz frequently have the fan running all the time.

JoeB.

hi folks,

question for those hardcore sonysts...
does anybody know if the fans in the vaio notebooks are in any which way software controllable???

thanks for any info

Joe

sk

No, that is not true. My father's Samsung Notebook is a Pentium M 1,5. the fan is running only when the unit starts up. Other then that it is completely quite with normal office software running.

kee-lo_

hi folks,

question for those hardcore sonysts... 
does anybody know if the fans in the vaio notebooks are in any which way software controllable???

thanks for any info

Joe

I have a feeling it is Joe