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    Problem with Vista Ultimate and my laptop's fan

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by pleasance, Feb 3, 2009.

  1. pleasance

    pleasance Notebook Enthusiast

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    Recently I got someone to install the Vista Ultimate on to my Toshiba Portege M800 laptop and ever since I've noticed my laptop's fan is almost always on. It never used to do this before when it ran on the Home Premium edition. My friend also added 2gb of ram on to my laptop so now it is maxed out at 4gb. Even so the fan still turns on even when I am doing non-intensive things.

    My laptop has a
    Pentium Dual-Core T3200 processor 2.0 GHz, 4 GB DDR2, 250 GB of Hard Disk Drive space, an Intel GMA 4500M graphics card.

    Does the vista ultimate take more to run than the home edition? I really don't like that the fan is ALWAYS on. It just doesn't make sense.
     
    pleasance, Feb 3, 2009
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Have you reviewed your power scheme, and try first some different settings?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Feb 4, 2009
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