Fan running all the time on notebook with Windows Vista

[r.patre]

Hi,

I just installed Windows Vista RC1 and the CPU is running constanly
even when the sytem is idle and the CPU usage is only 10%. Anyone any
ideas whats going on and how to fix this?

Thanks!

 

[Kerry Brown]

Contact the manufacturer of your laptop and see if they support Vista and/or
have Vista drivers. If you upgraded from XP to Vista then try a clean
install of Vista or if you did a clean install try an upgrade. If none of
that works then wait until Vista is available for sale and try the release
version. My experience with the RTM version is that it fixes many of these
types of problems. It may all depend on my first sugestion. The laptop may
not be compatible with Vista.

 

[r.patre]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I tried booting into safe mode and its fine. The fan only comes on
occassionally. Surely therefore there is something I can disable that
is causing this.

The laptop is very old (PIII 600 MHz and 512Mb RAM). As far as Vista
compatiablity goes...well despite its age all the drivers were
installed out of the box. So there is no reason to say its not
compatible.

Thanks!

 

[Kerry Brown]

The setting would be in software supplied by the laptop manufacturer. Given
the age of the laptop it's unlikely the manufacturer will be releasing
updated software for Vista. You could try playing with the power settings in
Vista but I don't see anything there that looks likely to help.

 

[Rock]

Hi,

I just installed Windows Vista RC1 and the CPU is running constanly
even when the sytem is idle and the CPU usage is only 10%. Anyone any
ideas whats going on and how to fix this?

For future reference there are Vista specific newsgroups. This newsgroup
deals with the XP OS, hence it's name, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.

microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_password
microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_managment
microsoft.public.windows.vista.games
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
microsoft.public.windows.vista.security