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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:24:02 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Acer Aspire One Fan Contro
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:10:09PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Yep, I don't disagree. But I strongly suspect that if you force the
> > fan off and overheat the machine, it will shut down in hardware before
> > doing any damage.
> 
> s/strongly suspect/definitely know/ ;-)
> 
> Reason being that my machine suddenly dropped dead (2 or 3 times maybe),
> and when I then reactivated it, the fan made a nice tick....tick....tick noise
> as if it tried to start but something blocked it a bit too much.
> Shook and rocked the box a bit (not too difficult with a netbook after all ;),
> then it worked again and ever since.
> Probably a slightly wonky fan, but I'm not sure whether I should care
> all that much at the moment.

:).

> I _am_ using the shell script currently, but within pretty safe limits
> (I'd hope that I'm not insane after all), thus I don't think this negatively
> affected fan health or machine.

What are your settings now?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.