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kismet010

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Registered: 2009-09-02

Posts: 137

ati & vaio = overheat &loud fan

since a few months I was very annoyed with the loud fan and overheated laptop (70-90º). reboot to windows and all normally. i try everything.. believeme..

yesterday, while moving teamviewer's wine window with Mod4key (windows' super key) and mouse (dwm's way) fan speed came slow and temperature went down. i really don't know what's happening here...

any clue?

catalyst hd5650 sony vpceb x86_64
tried oss driver, same

sdive

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Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1

Re: ati & vaio = overheat &loud fan

Same behaviour for me.

If you keep a key pressed and simultaneously a finger on the touchpad it will further decrease the fan speed. Oddly this also occurs on Windows. The same trick almost stops the fan!

sammyte

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Registered: 2010-09-27

Posts: 2

Re: ati & vaio = overheat &loud fan

Did it fix your problem completely?

I have the same problem, if it fixed, could you explain me how to do it?