I don't know if this will help but I should mention that the identical issue happened on Vista.
I have a dual boot and I hadn't upgraded my Nvdia Vista driver since I installed Vista around last March/April. Last week I decided to upgrade the Vista nvidia driver (from the Dell website) in the hopes of correcting a resolution changing problem. After updating the driver and rebooting Vista the alternate fan speed (alternating fast slow every few seconds) problem started. I upgraded the bios from A10 to A12 and the fan resumed normal operation. I also then changed from Nvidia 173 to 177 on Ubuntu and the fan is working normally. -- nvidia graphics driver 177.80 on geforce 8400 makes fan spin all the time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
