cooling fan is oscillating regularly once f11 beta starts to run

[Robert L Cochran]

You said earlier this Gateway unit is refurbished? I wonder if it is a 
physical fan or a power supply problem. I'm pretty accustomed to 
EMachines and Gateway units coming with the cheapest possible power 
supplies. Which go bad, it seems. I tend to plug even my laptop power 
brick into a good UPS unit rather than the wall outlet itself, because 
in my area, power spikes and sags are pretty routine.

Bob


On 04/10/2009 07:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    (while i'm on a roll ...)
>
>    on this gateway m-1626, shortly after f11 beta starts to run, the
> cooling fan kicks into this regular oscillation with a period of about
> 4 seconds -- speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down ... you get the
> idea.
>
>    to test that it's not a HW issue, i rebooted and hopped into the
> BIOS and let it sit there for several minutes, whereupon it ran nice
> and smoothly the entire time.
>
>    as soon as i rebooted fedora and got to my GNOME desktop, the
> oscillation started up again.  occasionally, it will calm down briefly
> but that doesn't last long.
>
>    anyone else seeing this?
>
> rday
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