quiet pc's?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> As an aside, I have a compaq presario amd xp2200 that I'm curious about.
> It is quiet after WinXP boots, and quiet after Mepis Linux boots (at
> least kernel 2.6.7) BUT if I boot libranet or slackware the fan is
> noisy, always. As soon as winxp shows a screen the fan shuts off, and
> the same is true for Mepis, but not the other two distros. Ideas? I
> assume power control settings, but need details. (On the noisy t-bird
> computer the fans run all the time, no matter what distro I'm using)

Sounds like ACPI settings to me.  Either the mobo has little or no ACPI
support, or it needs to be tweaked.

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