[ltp] X61 or X61s (loud fan)

[Nikolaos Lampadariou]

I am also running lenny (2.6.250) on my x61s and although the fan seems 
to run all the time on full speed its not annoying even in a very quit 
room. But I've learned that fan noise is something very subjective. My 
previous laptop was really noisy so when I started searching for a new 
one I kept on reading reviews on fan noise for weeks before I decided to 
bay the x61s. Most reviews were saying that you can hardly notice the 
fan noise. When I got it I have to say that I was really disappointed. I 
could hear the noise clearly. But I guess that my disappointment was 
also due to my previous frustration and my eagerness to hear the 
absolute "silence". However, after a few days I got used to it and I 
forgot all about fan noises. But as I said, all this is really subjective.

Regarding the head, mine gets also hot under the right palm rest. But 
this is due to the wireless. I read that lenovo put an extra fan where 
the wireless is in some models and mine obviously doesn't have it. I 
have to say though that I am working in a warm environment (we had 
always between 35-38 C this summer) and I am waiting to see if its going 
to be better when it gets cooler outside.

 > Not only does it run almost the whole time, but it also is quite loud 
and makes pitch noises every 5
> seconds.

The pitch noise every 5 sec is probably the Load_Cycle_Counts issue. 
Check it out with the smartctl tool. There are fixes around (the call it 
the uggly fix) and I could fix this issue on my previous laptop when I 
was running debian etch. But not with lenny on the x61s, so when its 
annoying me I can stop it manually with "hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda"

BUT BE WARNED. There are reports that this might be dangerous.

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