2010/1/14 Neil Baylis <neil.bay...@gmail.com>:
>
> Ah OK. The penny drops. When I get home tonight, I'll follow the
> directions to disable SMI and see what happens.

It doesn't sound like SMI. That normally happens periodically. (in my
case it was every 64 seconds)
>
> Is SMI the facility that makes the fans speed up and slow down
> according to how busy the system is? Or is that something else?

That's something else, I think. Though SMI is involved in thermal
management, I believe, and so you don't want to mess with it unless
you are sure you need to.

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atp

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