On 07-09-2006, Erik Wikstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > On 2006-09-07 17:50, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: >> On Thu, September 7, 2006 6:28 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> >> 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. > > I have a computer on which the fan-controls does not start working until > somewhere post BIOS, before that they run for full. Might be something > like that but in reverse, the fan-control is disabled and the fans run > for full by default. How does the computer sound when it starts?
Could it be ACPI tearing down ? I've got no clue, but my Compaq Presario also exhibits that behaviour. Francis
