- fan on constantly
- Posted by attollo on November 2nd, 2005
why is my fan constantly on on my laptop and the hourglass blinks next to the
cursor since yesterday and I can't get it to stop
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Jackie
- Posted by DrJoel on November 2nd, 2005
attollo wrote:
> why is my fan constantly on on my laptop and the hourglass blinks next to the
> cursor since yesterday and I can't get it to stop
I had a similar problem on a notebook computer. It turned out that the
fan opening was filled with dust. I was able to vacume it out. But if
you try it cover the opening of the drives with tape so no dust is
pulled in. There might be a safer way to fix this, so wait to see what
others say.
- Posted by Dixonian69 on November 2nd, 2005
You sure Jackie isnn't talikng about HD spinning which ie is related to
hourglass?
Your comments covering opening with tape? Vent is cooling for processor and
ram. Computer would overheat. Would it not?
--
Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.
"DrJoel" wrote:
> attollo wrote:
> > why is my fan constantly on on my laptop and the hourglass blinks next to the
> > cursor since yesterday and I can't get it to stop
> I had a similar problem on a notebook computer. It turned out that the
> fan opening was filled with dust. I was able to vacume it out. But if
> you try it cover the opening of the drives with tape so no dust is
> pulled in. There might be a safer way to fix this, so wait to see what
> others say.
>
- Posted by andlommy on November 3rd, 2005
Hello Jackie,
press Control+Shift+Escape (Hold down Control and Shift, and press Escape)
to open the Task Manager. A window will pop with a list of processes running
on your laptop. Note the average use of the processor and report it here.
Fan always on usually means that laptops' internal sensors show CPU
temperature too high. This might be caused by high activity of the notebook
(perhaps there is some dead process that's eating all of the CPU).
Hope that helps 
--
Andrew
MCP/MCSA/MCSA:Messaging
"attollo" wrote:
> why is my fan constantly on on my laptop and the hourglass blinks next to the
> cursor since yesterday and I can't get it to stop
> --
> Jackie
- Posted by Noone on November 3rd, 2005
In article <3165B422-FED9-41CC-9199-196C3B15E3E8@microsoft.com>,
andlommy@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Hello Jackie,
>
> press Control+Shift+Escape (Hold down Control and Shift, and press Escape)
> to open the Task Manager. A window will pop with a list of processes running
> on your laptop. Note the average use of the processor and report it here.
>
> Fan always on usually means that laptops' internal sensors show CPU
> temperature too high. This might be caused by high activity of the notebook
> (perhaps there is some dead process that's eating all of the CPU).
>
> Hope that helps
>
click two times on the percentage column and the most "in use" processes
are at the top watch for a few seconds to see which come to the top).
