Satellite A60-122: Cooling regimes and Power Saver bug

There are two cooling methods available for my laptop: 'Max Performance' and 'Battery Optimized'. Well, I have read what the manual says about these regimes, but my observations are a little bit different. I found out that under the 'Battery Optimized' regime only the primary fan is working (the one with the processor), while under the 'Max performance' regime the secondary fan is operated.
The trouble is in switching between the regimes: once 'Max performance' is turned on, and then the computer is switched back to 'Battery Optimized', the secondary fan will never stop. It is very disturbing, since the secondary fan is sort of noisy. Any ideas how to fix this problem?
I have got the latest BIOS version (1.90) as well as the latest Power Saver program.

Hello
Sorry but I dont believe you are hardware engineer, hardware designer or maybe software developer to define some behavior as bug. Or I am wrong about it? ;)
How old is your A60? Have you ever cleaned the unit and remove the dust? Can the unit be cooled properly? Please clean it properly and unit will be able to take a breath. That means the cooling fans will run slowly and definitely not so often. After cleaning my old Satellite P20 (three cooling grills) notebook was much quieter.
Power saver is created for battery optimization and allow user to define how the notebook should work with battery or AC power supply. This optimization means lower power consumption and longer work with battery power supply.
> The trouble is in switching between the regimes: once
> 'Max performance' is turned on, and then the computer
> is switched back to 'Battery Optimized', the
> secondary fan will never stop. It is very disturbing,
> since the secondary fan is sort of noisy. Any ideas
> how to fix this problem?
This is very interesting issue and I have tested it on my notebook and it works well. I have switched few times between profiles and the result is always the same: the fun runs under max performance but every time when I switch to battery optimized the cooling fan stops immediately. Try please to create own profile with minimum level of CPU activity and cooling method. Connect it to AC power supply and with FN+F2 switch between the profiles.
At the end, if there is some bug I believe in last two years (the unit should be about two and half years old) it should be fixed long time ago.

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