Dell Inspiron 8100 fan always running

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Isaac Ferreira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I cant seem to understand why my laptop fan is running all the time.
> The computer does not seem terribly hot or anything, but the fan runs
> all the time now when originally the fan worked only occasionially.
>
> I tried removing the dust, this didnt help.
>
> Anyone have an idea?

From task manager/processes tab, when doing nothing, what is the idle
process percentage? It should be in the high 90% range. If not, then
check msconfig (run command, type: msconfig, select startup tab) and
verify that all of the startups are necessary. Use this site to
identify unknown startups:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

From device manager, check the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, Primary and
Secondary IDE channels, transfer modes are DMA if available, and current
transfer mode are Ultra DMA Mode X.

Check that the Indexing Service is disabled. Animated screen savers
turned off.

Q

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

On 19 Aug 2004 01:36:30 -0700, gpostcov@hotmail.com (Isaac Ferreira)
wrote:

>> From device manager, check the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, Primary and
>> Secondary IDE channels, transfer modes are DMA if available, and current
>> transfer mode are Ultra DMA Mode X.
>>
>> Check that the Indexing Service is disabled. Animated screen savers
>> turned off.
>>
>> Q
>
>Thanks for the help
>
>No strange processes were running on startup
>
>I did manage to update the Intel driver for the IDE ATA/ATAPI
>Controllers, this may help, but the settings here were fine, rebooted
>and it has so far kept the fan in check, but we'll see in a day or 2
>
>Indexing service was already disabled
>
>I just hope I dont have a computer that is simply tiring out...

Sounds like you could use the program called FANGUI. You can probably
find it through google or on Dell Talk boards.