Fan Surging on G71- Laptop

OK, this is weird. My fan surges from high to low. Sometimes it stops for a second and then starts again. Sometimes it will stop for several minutes to an hour and everything will operate normally. Then it will start surging for another hour. Sometimes during the surges performance gets really choppy, eg. moving the mouse pointer will make it jump around.
The inside of the cmoputer is clean.
In BIO setup "Fan Always on" is not checked.
I have not upgraded the BIOS.
I dn't think it's software (operating system) related. When it started doing this about three weeks ago, I was running Linux Mint 14. I then switched to Ubuntu 12.04. Then I reloaded Windows 7. Then I went back to Mint, only version 15.
CLUE: When I was running Windows 7, it never woke up from it's first hiberation. Instead, it gave a message and a blue screen of death saying it shut down dur to processor temperatures. It never ran correctly again under Windows. After loading Linux Mint 15, no issues except for the fan surging.
INFO: HP Model G71-340US
Product VM114UA#ABA
System Board ID 306B Version 21.14
BIOS Version F.20  Release 10/13/2009 Rev 15.32 Fw. Rev. 33.20
BIOS VENDOR Insyde
Any ideas appreciated.

Oh no!
And it's brand new right?  So a dusty/clogged fan wouldn't apply here.  It's odd that you would have that issue on a Mini as they use a tiny little atom processor, not a super hot i7 or anything like that (Envy Users have a lot of heat issues).  Does the laptop feel hot at all?  If not it could be a faulty fan, if you just bought it I'm sure you can have that looked at/replaced under warranty.
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