hi

i have redhat 8.0 installed in ASUS p3 1000 Ghz laptop.

after about 5 minutes from booting the system the fan starts and doesn't stop whatsoever

here is the result for top command:

1058 murshed 16 0 45984 43M 18644 R 25.8 17.6 10:23 mozilla-bin
819 root 5 -10 42984 33M 7628 S < 8.2 13.3 2:47 X
1399 root 16 0 1052 1052 840 R 0.9 0.4 0:03 top
967 murshed 15 0 12604 12M 8616 S 0.3 4.9 0:05 rhn-applet-gui
977 murshed 15 0 13012 12M 11560 S 0.3 5.0 0:01 kdeinit
952 murshed 15 0 12360 12M 11048 S 0.1 4.8 0:03 kdeinit
958 murshed 15 0 1020 1016 900 S 0.1 0.3 0:01 autorun


the average load is about 1.0 ..

what could be the reason?? when i switch to windows everything goes fine ...

BTW, it is running with the battery only .. the AC power is not plugged in

regards