On Thu, September 7, 2006 6:28 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > BTW - the poweroff on my laptop, with Dragonfly and FreeBSD (last I > checked), is also accompanied by a rather alarming and short-lived > whine, as if a spinning disk or fan was suddenly stopped. I don't get > this sound with linux or windows.
I had an older system that would do this with the fans; I never saw a negative effect. I assumed it was some setting that was tripped as systems were shutdown, which made the fans react as if the temperature was too high - perhaps the equivalent of a burst of static.
