http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo S10 users complaining of endless fan noise http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/I am not sure how many reported one key recovery also does not work out of the box.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Blame Adobe and their damned Flash Player. Why they can't write an efficient one is quite beyond me but there is no reason why not. I mean, watching a small Flash video seems to take up about 105% CPU time on a C2D 2.33GHz but yet a 1080p video takes up about 80%. Something screwy going on there. No wonder Apple doesn't want them to write a Flash Player for the iPhone - damned thing would probably spontaneously combust or something...]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
I think you missed the point.

@Skyblaze

Bravo.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Love it]]>Feb 23rd 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
A little better, but still. You'd think they'd just get people to use these products for a week, get feedback and fix them. ]]>Feb 23rd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
It's hot.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
I owned a S10 for about 3 months and the constant on/off of the system fan was definitely a problem. After only about 20 min of use, the netbook would get to it's threshold temp (right before the fan would need to be kicked on) and then the annoying fan issue would start. Any CPU spike would be enough to push it over the threshold and turn the fan on for about 10 seconds until it cooled back down. This made web browsing really painful as every single website you went to made the system fan jump on and off.

And no, the system fan was not controllable via software like SpeedFan. Lenovo could so easily fix this by putting in a variable speed thermal cooling profile for the system fan, instead of their default full off or full on approach.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Welcome to the internet!

Anyway, Lenovo has fan issues with all of their laptops lately, it seems. I've complained about my Thinkpad SL500 here before, and while the fan on it doesn't bother me much, it does bother some other people if you read their forums. It basically just never turns off. On the plus side, the one thing I *do* like about my SL500 (and literally, the *one* thing) is that it never even gets warm. But that makes it all the more puzzling why the fan never shuts off.

It's gotta be whoever they've got writing their BIOS's.
]]>Feb 23rd 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/I use 3-4 different OS's & it does it in all, but it's not a "problem" that I can tell yet...
It doesn't get as hot as a dell inspirion 5100 I have either. NO burned .. anything for me.
Of, course, it's so small, I almost hold it as a hand held most of the time I don't have a desk.

Also, RE: the 1 key restore, It worked for me out of the box.. until I deleted the partition. But I made a few recovery DVD's before I went & really busted it. And I have to re-partition it to restore the XP from DVD.
If I REALLY hose it, that's kinda my fault, so I'm not complaining. But I can recover it ;-) ]]>Feb 23rd 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Haven't had it fixed yet because the Lenovo support center here said it'd take 3 weeks and I can't wait that long because I use the s10 for work. Needless to say, I'll probably never buy a Lenovo computer again.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Man up and fix the fan Lenovo before we send Chuck Norris in after you.]]>Feb 23rd 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
Hey that sounds like the kind of service I've been getting for the last 3 years!]]>Feb 23rd 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
My S10 can run dead silent, however, sometimes I get an endlessly running fan. I notice particularly when it's waking up from a hibernation. If I shut it down before closing the lid, it almost never happens.

Other than that, I love my S10!!! 160gb HDD is awesome. Touchpad rocks (multitouch + circle scroll). Screen is great.

Battery life is meh. ]]>Feb 23rd 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
The unit does get hot, but its not testicle-baking.

The best part of this whole fan debacle is that Lenovo could easily crap out a BIOS that would allow some sort of thermal threshold control with minimal effort. However, there's yet to be a single peep from them on the issue. ]]>Feb 23rd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/
http://forums.lenovo.com/lnv/board/message?board.id=IdeaPad_Netbook&thread.id=795]]>Feb 23rd 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/lenovo-s10-users-complaining-of-endless-fan-noise/Feb 23rd 2009 2:16PM