Portege R700 -- disabling Intel AMT in BIOS causes fan to run constantly

I recently purchased a Portege R700-1321, which shipped with BIOS 1.40. I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64. I have attempted to disable Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) on this machine by going into the ME BIOS (via ctrl-P at bootup), setting an admin password, and then disabling ME completely. However, when I reboot after disabling ME, the fan starts to run at high speed and runs continually so long as the machine is powered on. Re-enabling ME in the BIOS and rebooting again causes the fan to behave normally.
I believe this is a BIOS rather than Windows problem because upon booting the machine, the fan steps up from low to high speed over the course of about a second before the Windows startup screen appears. Windows appears to be fine despite the continually running fan, so AFAIK this is not the freezing-up issue that has been reported for R700s, despite the similar involvement of the fan.
Is anyone else seeing a similar issue?

I noticed that when battery is charging the miniPCI temperature spikes to 50 degrees. Unplugging the AC or reaching the charging threshold causes sudden drop in the temperature. The interesting thing is that the minipci sensor is near the southbridge (near the ram) and the battery sensor itself stays stable at 30 degrees.

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