Satellite Radius P55W has an annoyingly loud fan!?!?!

I’ve had the Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W B5318 (SSD version) for less than a week and love its performance, its very fast, light and the folding screen is awesome. I discovered that the wi-fi on it is inferior, but that’s still acceptable for me, as is the small SDD size (256 GB). What I didn’t expect is the hardware design flaw in these machines, that being the fan. It turns on and off quite frequently at random times, is loud, and the worst part is it may turn on for 45 seconds and then off and it will make a sputtering noise at both ends. Its very distracting and annoying and is a deal breaker so I have to call this laptop a fail and bring it back to Best Buy and get a Lenovo Yoga and leave a bunch of reviews every where to warn people about this laptop. It’s a shame because I really want to keep it and even looked to see if there was any software that will either turn off the fan or slow it down, but there doesn’t exist any for this computer (Speedfan doesn’t support this motherboard apparently).And I cannot get into the BIOS either to adjust the fan’s power function so I don’t really have a recourse. Toshiba, why did you have to include this annoying fan and then not give us the option to control/turn it off? Do any of you find that the fan turns on a lot to the point of being annoying? Audio90

Hello I just bought the Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W with an i7 processor today. There are many things about it that I liked, which is why I bought it.. bought I did notice right away, that the fan does intermittently turn on and off, even when I am not doing anything, or running any programs. It's funny, because I returned a brand new Dell, and got this Toshiba, exactly because the other brand new laptop was doing the same thing! The noise of the fan is not that loud. But I could see it getting bothersome. Plus, my concern is, why is it doing it? And what happens when I begin running Photoshop and many other programs at the same time? Anyway, to anyone with the same or simiar issue, try doing this... the USB port on the left side, right next to the AC adapter plug-in... use it for either a wireless mouse or wireless keyboard. I plugged in a wireless mouse receiver into that port, and as strange as it may sound... the fan problem has gone away for now. I have a couple technical theories as to why this would make a difference.. but I won't share my guesses.. until I know for sure this is a workaround. I would love to hear from anyone who is having a similar fan issue. Except for this problem, I really love this laptop so far. And if possible, don't want to return it, and look for another one with similar specs and performance levels. LaptopFiend (J.M.)

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you wrote
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you wrote
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I've read that if I installed OSX 10.4 then the fan would run quieter.
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Some say they were originally intended as turbine impellers for Boeing, but were rejected as too large. So Apple picked them up, and modified them for use in the eMac.
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Some people have installed a means to introduce resistance to the fan circuit to lower the voltage and hence the fan speed, in an attempt to quieten it down.
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