[ltp] Noisy fan on T42

Alexandru D. Salcianu linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:27:49 -0500


> From: Florian Reitmeir <squat@riot.org>
>
> > I have an IBM ThinkPad T42 2373-6VU, 1.7GHz Centrino, ATI Radeon 7500,
> > running Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3, Xorg 6.8.1.
> >=20
> > My (huge) problem is that the fan is always on in Linux, at full
> > speed, even when I don't run anything ;( I've even changed the BIOS
> > settings such that the processor always runs at min speed (600Mhz) and
> > the noise from the fan is unchanged ...
> 
> try unloading the usb uhci module, the module prevents the cpu from stepping
> to C3.

I've done that, but no effect (other than not being able to use my USB
devices).

Alex