[ltp] Noisy fan on T42

Michele Lamarca linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:41:53 +0100


On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:07:12 -0500, Alexandru D. Salcianu
<salcianu@mit.edu> wrote:
> So, nothing about CPU, GPU, frequency scaling, etc.  I don't think
> it's relevant for the fan noise problem, but I'll give it a try this
> evening.

Laptop mode spins up the hd only when necessary. If you're doing (for
example) text processing on a few files, your hd will be almost off.
This causes longer battery life and also (I think) lower temperature
of the entire system.

Michele