scott wrote:
>> We rebooted the laptop, and as soon as the BIOS screen showed up, the 
>> fans started spinning like mad. We waited for them to slow down.
> 
> What software was running then while you were waiting?

The BIOS configuration interface.

> I notice when I boot up my Vista box, that every fan runs at full blast 
> until some point during Vista boot, whereby first the CPU fan virtually 
> turns off, then a few seconds after the desktop appears the GPU fan 
> virtually turns off, all I can hear then is just occasional blips of 
> hard drive head movement - until I fire up a 3D game, then all hell 
> breaks loose again :-)

Interesting. All the fans in my PC just run constantly anyway. The four 
harddrives are just about inaudible.

(I can't believe I have four harddrives...)

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