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    Fan Always Running

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by cesar, Aug 10, 2008.

  1. cesar

    cesar Newbie

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    I have a Toshiba Tecra M3 running Windows XP. On that machine it seems like the fan in always running and the CPU is always running at 100%. Even the the system is sitting idle, you can hear the fan going.

    Is there a fix to this problem?

    Thanks,

    Cesar
     
    cesar, Aug 10, 2008
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  2. allan_huang

    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    do you have the most upto date bios?
    the bios controls the fan speeds
     
    allan_huang, Aug 10, 2008
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    If the CPU is running at 100% then check (i) the CPU utilisation shown on the processes tab of Task Manager (you can see which processes are taking the CPU time) and (ii) that speedstep is enabled in the BIOS.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Aug 11, 2008
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