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19-Mar-2008, 07:06 PM #1
New Seagate hd making my fans run at high speed and noisy
I have a PowerBook 800Mhz w/ 768MB ram it is running Tiger (10.4.11)
I replaced the original hard drive with a Seagate (ST9160821A-RK) 160GB hard drive. With this installed my fan runs at high speed and almost continually and makes a lot of racket.

What would cause this change and what can I do to reduce the noise?

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19-Mar-2008, 11:37 PM #2
have you tried running some program that will tell you the temperature of the computer to see if there is a ligimate reason for then running at such a high rpm..
try downloading smc fan control...
http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/
and see what the temps of the computer really are.
in that you can also choose your fan speed.
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19-Mar-2008, 11:42 PM #3
Thanks dannyn! I will download it tonight.
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20-Mar-2008, 12:31 AM #4
That utility looks great but only runs on Intel processors.

I looked but haven't found a similar utility for my PPC processor for my older laptop. Any suggestions?

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20-Mar-2008, 12:35 AM #5
OH SOO SORRY!
i didnt see that it was a power book.
would that link work for you?
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofivers...p/t337127.html
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