[ltp] thinkpad r50 problems

[Frederik Wagner]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:10:54 +1000
Chris Zhang <u4123459@anumail.anu.edu.au> wrote:

> i have a thinkpad r50 laptop with FC2 booting from 2.6.7 kernel. i came with 
> pentium m processor and centrino technology. despite the fact i have ticked 
> pentium M and unticked genric x86 optimisation support which according to the 
> manual will result a worse performance in that selected model. i still 
> happened to get the problem that the fan doesn't stop spinning. i researched 
> on the net and people reported the fan with the same model under windows xp 
> hard spins. i have tried both ACPI and APM, but either improved the 
> situation. certianly this is just my guess, perhpas power mangement have no 
> relevence to fan at all. does any one happen to share the problem? could you 
> please let me know if you can solve this?

Hi Chirs,

you are not alone :-/ I have the same problem with my T41. You find a lot of people having this problems on T41(p) and R50(p) in the net. After about 20min the fan starts turning and never stops again even if the laptop is totally idle.
On proposition of someone here in germany (has the problem on a R50p) -- who as escalated the problem with IBM -- I called the german IBM service 3 weeks ago. They said that they have an exemplar in testing at the moment and try to figure out the problem. They told me to call back in three weeks so I'll try this week to get to know something new. Then I'll report here...
At least they sounded as if they take the problem seriously! It couldn't be possible that expensive Thinkpads are noisier than half price cheap laptops with pentium M...!

I'll report...

Bye,
-- a very sound irritated -- Frederik!