Re: Noise with 2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 )

[Tommi Virtanen]

Bart Samwel wrote:
> > > When the 2.6.0 inits in my laptop it becomes reaaallyyy noisy.
> > > Why ?
> > If it's the fans, it's the BIOS reading CPU temperature of 85 C,
> > which is not true. It seems a Fn-Z press resets this reading to
> > sane values. You can look at the temperature reading and fan
> > state with i8kutils.
> >
> > Atleast that's what a Dell Latitude C640 that I had did.
> Might it be that the hardware reports 85 F instead of 85 C maybe? That's about 
> (85-32)*0.55 = about 29 C, which may be more realistic when you're just 
> booting it up. :)

Only if it switches between C and F at runtime. Normal readings when 
loaded were 55-65, IIRC.
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