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    M320 owners please reply

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by akkoristitkos, Oct 24, 2005.

  1. akkoristitkos

    akkoristitkos Newbie

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    I own a Gatweay M320 XL (1.5GHz Pentium M, 500MB) notebook, and my concern is that the processor fan is running virtually all the time (except for a couple of minutes after starting the system), even if I am not running any applications. My system does NOT overheat, and the fan usually runs at the slowest possible setting - but it does run continuously. I don't know whether this is a problem. A friend of mine has an older notebook, but its fan turns off periodically if he's not using it. Mine has Centrino technology, yet the fan is running all the time... (The computer is on a hard surface, with nothing to obstruct airflow, I'm using the minimal power scheme setting, and an external monitor so my notebook monitor is actually never turned on, no PC cards, etc...) Is this something I should be worried about? Gateway wants me to send the notebook in for service, but I'm afraid it'd be just a waste of money because they'd just return it and say everything's okay. (Not to mention the risks involved in transportation and that I need to use it every day!) Again, I have not had any problems with it, and the fan has been like this ever since I bought it last March. It's only my friends laptop that got me thinking... But this may just be a difference in design. If you own a similar system (or even if you don't), do you have the same issue with the fan? Or is there really something wrong with mine? Thanks,
    A.T.
     
    akkoristitkos, Oct 24, 2005
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    ngocthach1130 Notebook Guru

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    Well mine is also on for most of the time too. I don't think it's a problem though. It's a very small whirl. Not that noticeable. I wouldn't send it in. It'll be a waste of money. Although i get the problem when i use SpeedFan. It doesn't seem to recognize nor detect any fan at all in the system. So i guess i can't control fan speed using SpeedFan
     
    ngocthach1130, Oct 29, 2005
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