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    Satellite A135-S4467 and fan

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by quangdaika, Mar 31, 2007.

  1. quangdaika

    quangdaika Newbie

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    So I got this laptop 2 weeks ago with Vista Home Premium. I spent a lot of time running services.msc and msconfig to disable all the stuff I didn't need. The one thing that bothered me a lot is the fan. Even when it is idle, the fan constantly keep going off and on. This is a problem because I get distracted everytime the fan goes on. My old Dell Inspiron 5150's fan doesn't turn on unless I'm doing something that is hogging the resources.

    So my solution was going back to WinXP. I thought that would fix the problem but the same thing still occurs. Is this normal for laptop now or Toshiba laptop? The air from the fan is not hot at all. Would installing more RAM (currently has 1GB) help?
     
    quangdaika, Mar 31, 2007
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  2. ejl

    ejl fudge

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    installing more ram will not help. have you checked out your temperatures? anyway, one method of possibly reducing fan noise is undervolting your processor with a program like rmclock. it reduces your cpu load temps, so your fan may run less often. you might even try out speedfan to see if you can change your fan settings.
     
    ejl, Apr 2, 2007
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