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    Loud Fan on Gateway 450 Notebook

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by gss7881, Apr 4, 2005.

  1. gss7881

    gss7881 Newbie

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    Anybody has experience with Gateway notebooks. Do they have REALY loud fans? Mine is waaaay too loud and it runs every couple minutes. I don't know what to do with it.

    I have it for three years now and it always have done it. I have other people who have laptops like dells and you can't almost hear the fan running.

    I already have sent it in but nothing has changed. I don't run any serious applications most of the time.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    gss

    Gateway 450
     
    gss7881, Apr 4, 2005
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  2. bmorris

    bmorris Notebook Enthusiast

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    Gateway 450 fans are pretty loud, but they should not run all the time. Mine only runs at startup (a system check, I think), or if I am doing something really disk intensive (like a defrag) or CPU / graphics intensive (like batch processing manipulations in graphics files). In the course of a normal business day, my fan never runs at all.

    If your fan is running all the time, you may have some spyware or virus that is forcing your machine to do a lot of background work.

    Or... it could be that the heat sensor is broken and is falsely telling the fan to run all the time, or you have some other hardware problem. I've had 3 of my employee's Gateway 450s do this. Two had bad graphics cards (on the motherboard). I don't know if the bad graphics card was generating extra heat, thus making the fan run all the time, or there was a secondary problem on the motherboard. The chassis was replaced on both these units and the fan problem went away. The third 450 had a bad ACPI power control unit. Again, I am unsure if the bad power control unit was generating extra heat or something else was also wrong with the fan. In any case, a chassis replacement to fix the power module also fixed the fan problem.

    Hope you are still under warranty! And good luck dealing with Gateway. They have become impossible to work with. They are no longer our vendor of choice for computers due to their really bad tech support and customer service.
     
    bmorris, Apr 4, 2005
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