any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   this is another problem i started having with the test version, and
> it's still happening now -- on my gateway laptop running fully-updated
> f11, the cooling fan keeps spinning up and down with about a 3-second
> period.  it's really kind of annoying.  occasionally, it will stop
> completely for a bit, then it starts oscillating all over again.
> thoughts?

Just a guess here, but F11 is doing more with the CPU and is causing it 
to exceed the thermal threshold more often which causes the fan to kick 
in?  Have you looked at the system temperatures while this is happening?

> rday
> --

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