> Basically I want to determine whether the hardware is actually doing
> something abnormal before I send it back. Although running the fan

> laptop isn't even DOING anything sounds fairly abnormal to me...

IME (which might be out of date by now) the BIOS does actually use 100% 
CPU.  I guess it just never puts the CPU to sleep, and loops waiting for 
a keypress.

Have you checked the heatsink is properly attached to the CPU?  That 
would be my guess.

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