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To: Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzohgh@nsrg-security.com>
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Subject: Re: Noise with  2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 )
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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.