On 25/05/2010, at 10:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

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>>>> unlikely.
>>>> your systems should regulate the fan on its own when needed,
>>>> even without an acpi enabled os.
>>>> if it is doin that, don't worry.
>
> Usually if anything the fan will just run at full speed, which may be a
> little noisy but may also make your cpu slightly quicker and laptop
> last a little longer.

I've seen at least 1 laptop that was junked because the fan failed and 
it
was uneconomic to replace it.


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> Even if it doesn't switch itself off the cpu of all non ancient systems
> will pull back the current to stop any disaster.
>
> acpis a mess of variants from the standards. It would be so much better
> if this was done in hardware, the new nvidia cards, now run at full
> speed without the nvidia driver/during boot and are rediculously noisy.
>
> KeV



paulm