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    vaio SA/SB laptop fan goes crazy when screen turns off

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by hamud, Dec 7, 2012.

  1. hamud

    hamud Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the Power settings configured to turn the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity. As soon as the screen goes off, within seconds the internal fan goes crazy at high speed non-stop, until I wiggle the mouse again to turn the screen back on. Within seconds of the screen coming back on, the fan goes back to normal quiet operation.

    I tried clean install and upgrade from win 7 and the problem still exist .

    So my questions are:

    1) Who is experiencing this issue? if you have win 8 , can you check it for me ??
    2) What is causing it?
    3) How can I stop it from happening?

    Thanks in advance for all feedback...
     
    hamud, Dec 7, 2012
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  2. anytimer

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    Is it fan speed or fan noise/vibration that increases? As the bearings wear out, some fans will show greatly increased noise levels at certain speeds. Mine is starting to sound like a food processor.
     
    anytimer, Dec 7, 2012
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    fan speed increases , and this happen just with win 8 not with win 7
     
    hamud, Dec 8, 2012
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    hamud, Dec 8, 2012
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    Glad you got it sorted. Thanks for taking the trouble to tell us all about it. :)
     
    anytimer, Dec 8, 2012
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    Truecolors, Mar 13, 2013
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