Late 2008, Macbook Fan issues?

Hello,
I am curious to know if anyone has experienced problems with their fan?
I had a power failure at my house, before the failure, the Macbook was running fine as usual, after restarting, Fan continues to run?
Through iStat I can see that the temp is 35 degrees and the dual cpu usage is at little to none? Is this normal, will the fan return to its quiet mode?
Thank you

I'm not sure I understand. The fan always runs continuously. It should idle around 2000 RPM and will increase to 6000 RPM depending upon CPU and GPU activity.
If your fan is running at high speed continuously, then open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes drop down menu. Click twice on the CPU column to display in descending order. Look for a process consuming a large amount of CPU time. If you find one then select it and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar, then click on the Force Quit button. See if that fixes the problem. Otherwise you may have some file corruption that may have been caused by the power outage. You should try the following in this case:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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Having only inserted the ExpressCard leads to 10-20% CPU load (pure system load, not produced by any process) on XP as long as the ExpressCard driver is active (standard Windows TI Firewire driver).
The extra system load completely vanishes once you load the CPU to maximum, but when using Ableton Live even over the inbuild FW800 port performance is at least 30% lower as long as the ExpressCard driver is active.
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