Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/04/2002 (08:12) : > Preben Randhol wrote: > > > Have anybody experienced that suddenly when you boot BIOS it gives you a > > warning that there is a Fan error. I got this a lot and I kept turning > > off the machine without booting and then suddenly it went away. And once > > Never. My fans don't come on unless I'm working pretty hard. But I'm > running kernel 2.4.17 with acpi patches. Are you using APM or ACPI? > Interestingly the fans seem to come on almost immediately if I start a high > load program. This is completely independent of the supposed fan-control > support in ACPI because the ACPI bios is broken for fans & thermal.
Extremely odd. When I returned home (to my country) I never get the error message about the fans again. Perhaps it was because I was at altitude of 1600 meter above the sea? Thin air an all? Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
