Satellite L20-182: fan doesn't work properly - one minute intervals

When I turn on the computer about twenty minutes is quiet. Than fan starts like a hurricane, slows down and stops. It lasts few seconds. The fan works in this way regularly with one minute intervals.
Is there any possibility to switch the fan on continuous work in slow motion?

Hi.
I think that your notebook works fine. I have L20-101 which has Pentium M processor and it does the same. Usually after some period when it turns the fan on and off the fan starts to work at one slow speed. If you really want to have quieter machine and you really want that you can change settings in Bios (Thermal mode control - silent or perfomance). In performance mode processor runs at maximum possible speeds when it needs so fan behaves like yours. In silent mode, fan turns only when it really needs and for very short time. I got used to use silent mode when I do something else in the moment than sitting before my computer and I need my laptop as great calculator (MS-Excel, Rm-Win, MS - Word or 2D drawing in AutoCAD). If you need your computer for aplications that doesn't need very fast machine you can use silent mode. If you really need all power then you can switch to performance mode before booting.
I need performance mode only for watching Divx movies or converting files to PDF format (it is too slow at silent mode to convert 100 pages of text and drawings to PDF for me)
If you have any other questions that's my mail:
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