[Thinkpad] 600E: fan doesn´t go off

I have a Thinkpad 600E (2645-550), Pentium II 300 Mhz, with Windows 2000
(ServicePack 4) installed, 160MB RAM and BIOS 1.15 (IHET47WW) and have
installed all the most recent device drivers I could get hold of.

The problem is:
About 15 minutes after startup the CPU cooling fan starts running and then
never stops, no matter what I do (i.e. which programmes I run, etc.). Even
if the air emitted from the machine is relatively cold, it doesn´t stop.

The fan is almost quiet during the process of hibernation and runs only a
short time at the beginning of the startup process, then goes quiet for the
rest of the start-up and only starts after 15 mins into working with the
machine.

Another odd thing:
suspend-to-ram (Fn+F4)and suspend-to-disk (Fn+F12) do not work on this
machine. when I press Fn+F4, the system hibernates (suspend-to-disk). When
I press Fn+F12, nothing happens.

What should I do? (the most annyoing thing is the fan, though.)

Thomas

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Received on Mon Jul 28 16:26:33 2003