On my dell inspiron 3500 with a 300MHz Celeron, the fan only comes on when it
needs to. The mobile chips do some stuff that help the heat but alas at the
expense of performanace.
Bret
"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:19:22PM -0500, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> > I installed linux on my laptop this weekend and noticed that the cooling fan
> > is not running so I shut it down. Does anyone know what would keep the fan
> > from running? I have a Sager 2330 and have installed 6.2
>
> Wild guess: Could it be a temperature controlled fan which only runs
> once the box gets too warm? Would make sense in a laptop, as running a
> fan unnecessarily wastes battery reserves...
>
> Thomas
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