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From: Peter Berg Larsen <pebl@math.ku.dk>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: cpu fan (acpi)
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, n0p n0p wrote:

> Sometime, the fan of my dell laptop goes to speed 3 even if the
> temperature of the cpu is low.

I had the same experience with a dell i8000, but a bios upgrade fixed
that:  (from i8000a22.txt)

The following updates were made to the A19 BIOS to create A20:
...
3.  Fixed issue in which the fans may remain on high speed constantly.
...