Noisy Dell Inspiron 5160 on FC3
 

Hello good people,

It's nice weather but incredibly hot in the office these days. My laptop didn't stop blowing really hard and I couldn't work with all this noise!

After a few investigations I fell on the i8Kutils with which I configured the fans so they make less frequently noise. that was without counting the weather in because once it starts to get hot the fans run loud often anyway.

My next attempt at it was frequency scaling. I tried a lot of things but didn't succeeded. Still having hot cpu's and noisy fans.

Is there by any chance somebody who has a rooky-level explanation to set this up ? Or maybe frequency scaling doesn't it make sense to try to drop cpu temperatures ... I have no clue.

Kind Regards,

Jan

Check you bios settings, sometimes theres a setting for the fan to run auto or contiunous, if thats the problem. Since you didnt say what sort of processor you have, its hard to tell if thats just the norm (runnin hot), it might be worth it to get the Targus cooling pad, its a usb powered board with fans, might help keep cool air on it, and if it has fans on the bottom it will always keep them clear so they can do their job...

HTH

Scott McNeely

Alas, no bios settings regarding to cooling, fans, frequency, ...

But I'm really just trying to make the laptop less noisy. But again, will frequency scaling make the temperature of the cpu drop ?

And I forgot indeed telling what hardware I was running. Sorry. Here it comes ...

output /proc/cpuinfo
===============
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2791.629
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
bogomips : 5521.40

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2791.629
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr
bogomips : 5570.56

dmesg | grep CPU output
====================
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0414000 soft=c03f4000
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000459d 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000459d 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000459d 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU0: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 2926.15 usecs.
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c0415000 soft=c03f5000
Initializing CPU#1
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000459d 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000459d 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000459d 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 01
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs:
CPU#0 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
CPU#1 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
Brought up 2 CPUs
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
CPU1 attaching sched-domain: