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From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
To: Tommi Virtanen <tv@tv.debian.net>,
	Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzohgh@nsrg-security.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Noise with  2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 )
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:36:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401201336.54113.bart@samwel.tk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4003F998.4020104@tv.debian.net>

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 14:58, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro 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. :)

-- Bart

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-20 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07 15:13 Noise with 2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 ) Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro
2004-01-13  3:48 ` Neil Brown
2004-01-13 13:58 ` Tommi Virtanen
2004-01-20 12:36   ` Bart Samwel [this message]
2004-01-20 20:17     ` Tommi Virtanen

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