GPU fan always running

Hopefully there is in fact a separate gpu fan. Sitting at idle, my T61 runs at about 0-2% processor running 59 processes, and about 51C. While it isnt that loud, there is a fan, or fan noise rather coming from the right side of the computer, always. Even just turning it on after sitting in a cool room for several hours, the fan will run beginning at startup. Ive used tpfancontrol and tried just about everthing else. Some program, i cant remember what showed the "gpu fan speed" at 100%.

anyone have any help? am i wrong in thinking this notebook has more than one fan?

 

Pretty sure there is only 1 fan.

 

so what youre meaning to say is that i'm hearing the hard drive, rather than a fan. this is a noisy hard drive, i guess. consider me enlightened.

 

Yup, I can confirm that there is in fact only one fan and it's in the top left corner. The bottom right corner is indeed where the HDD is located.

 

im having the same problem with my t61. how can we get the hdd to not be constantly spinning?

 

yeah, so now the question is how to quiet the hard drive down. it doesnt help that its a 7200rpm drive, but shouldnt it shut off once in a while? i have it set to shut down after 1 min, but it never does. search indexing is off and i just defragged it. what else can i do?

 

I've had several of the hitachi's. They are silent.

 

My 7k200 200G Hitachi disk is noisy as well. I change the power management, shut down hard disk after 3 mins (On XP). it works a little bit.
What kind of Hard disk do you have, Mikeeeeee?

 

This is from the Top Vista Tweeks thread.