Qosmio F60 fan all the time 80-90%

Hello, my fan seems to be on all the time and it is always at 80-90%.
I am just running a spyware scan and have my IE open...CPU is at 70%...
What is wrong with this laptop?

Hey,
> I am just running a spyware scan and have my IE open...CPU is at 70%...
If you run a spyware scan, high CPU Usage is normal because all files on HDD will be checked for such spyware so nothing is unusual.
Generally speaking fan activity is depending on hardware usage. If you run such spyware search programs or other programs they causing high usage, its normal that fan also runs on high level because the hardware needs to be cooled to protect it from hardware damages.
As Paolo30 wrote you can try to clean the cooling modules from time to time. Maybe it can help you.
Also try a different cooling method. You can change between different cooling methods in Windows power management.
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Hello everyone, I'm trying to troubleshoot my laptop and was hoping someone may have some insight. I have a Latitude E6410 with Intel graphics, Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and I'm using KDE. My fan seems to want to be on high most of the time, and I'm not really sure why.
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I've done some further troubleshooting on this, and here are my results so far.
First of all, I used Windows 7 on this laptop for a few days and also tested Kubuntu, and both didn't have an issue. Both seemed to operate normally.
The problem with my Arch Linux install has actually gotten a bit better, but the problem is still present. Today for example, my fan kicked on high speed and the temp grew to about 160F when I checked it. The culprit that time was npviewer.bin, which was eating a ton of processor. I killed it, and the temperature dropped to about 120F, and about five minutes later the fan slowed down. This seemed pretty normal.
Then again, during the same use session, the fan kicked on high once when the temperature was in the 120's, which previously was the temperature (or slightly below) that caused the fan to slow down last time. At the time, I had chromium and several konsole windows open. I don't understand why that would cause the fan to kick on high speed.
Later on, the temp went up to somewhere above 130F with only chromium open, and the temperature was continuing to rise, then the fan came on and cooled it down. I found it weird that one Chromium window, and 1% of CPU, would cause the CPU temp to steadily rise like that.
Now, as I type this sentence, with the said Chromium window open, the processor temp is hanging around 115F and the fan is on high. About 12% CPU is being used overall. And even with the temp around 115F, the fan isn't stopping. It just keeps going. Previously, the fan slowed down at 120F. Now, it just seems like it's intent to keep the fan going for no apparent reason.
When I first created this topic, I was using Virtualization (I had a Windows 7 VM running) so I could kind of understand the high fan while running two operating systems at the same time, but even after closing the VM, the fan NEVER slowed down (which is what prompted me to create this topic). In that use cycle, I waited about 30 minutes for the fan to slow down. It never did.
The problem here is that I can't really point the finger at any one thing.

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