Satellite A300-1DB CPU Fan is annoying, too loud

Hi all,
I bought a Toshiba Satellite A300-1DB today in a German (580 Euro) and i really like the notebook design and performance, but there is one big problem I can't bear anymore (and I just used it for 2 hours).
The CPU Fan on the left side of notebook is so annoyning: Even if I keep the notebook idle (CPU activity is very low, just under 10% and 1 gb ram used), the CPU fan keeps spinning for one minute really really loudly.
After that there is silence, such a beautiful silence.... for 2 minutes. And then the whole procedure starts over and over again. Just cold air comes out.
Thats drive me crazy, the CPU Fan in the idle modus is louder than my other Satellite A210-106 Turion X2-52 L with full CPU activity. I wish to have a CPU fan that keeps spinning in a low sound.
Do you have any ideas how to control the fan????
Otherwise i must try to replace it with another Notebook (I hope that they allow that, unfortunatly it isn't a Internet shop where you can send it back until 14 days)
Regards,
Dieter

I have managed this successfully using balanced power plan and using Battery optimized option for Cooling method. This setting you can find under Advanced power settings > Toshiba Power Saver utility.

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