Re: Satellite L550D-12E - fan is always running

Hi there!
We have a Toshiba L550D-12E and we're pretty satisfied with the device itself - if there wasn't the noisy fan. The fan ALWAYS runs audibly and I can't find any setting in the BIOS of its control .
To my verxy sorrow I also can't find a support contact form to contact Toshiba so i hope that anybody here will know a solution...thank you very much!
Kindly regards,
Matthias

Fans performance is controlled by fan table stored in BIOS.
Fan table contains info about the temperature levels and how and when the cooling fan has to start and stop rotating.
I guess this has been improved in BIOS to keep the temperature at lower level. This would protect the parts from damage due to high temperature.
As far as I know you can change this a little bit.
In Toshiba HWSetup in CPU tab you can set the CPU to always low or dynamically would recommend checking both options
Furthermore in Win 7 power option you can change the cooling method to more battery friendly state this should slow down the fan rotation too.

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