[ltp] Second handed T43 issues (already bought): advises for tons of doubts and questions, please

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:25:21 -0200


On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote:
> 	-nevertheless, put to level 7 (full-speed that it shows as disengaged),
> it can go just around to 4000 although noise level is (in crescendo)
> very high; and there were moments with levels 5 or 6 e.g. that the fan
> took many more revolutions (than at full-speed).

That's the T43 fan firmware bug.  It can't go faster than full-speed, but it
can make a major ammount of racket (because it doesn't ramp up) that surely
makes one think it went faster, as it sounds like the T43 is reving up its
engines as people do to old cars...

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  Henrique Holschuh