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Fan spins then stops (repeat for 20 minutes)

Asked by KingRudi

I have a Dell XPS 15, running a clean install of Ubuntu and Bumblebee 3. Often I can hear my fan spinning up for a about 3 seconds, then it sops for about 3 seconds, and then that repeats for quite a while (10 to 20 minutes). I'm worried this is going to damage my laptop. Does anyone know how I can attempt to troubleshoot the problem?

Thanks so much,
Rudi

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a

I assume you have the latest BIOS

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KingRudi (guit4eva) said : 		#2

Wow, quick reply! I'm not sure if I have the latest BIOS. Here is the output:

rudeboy@Insite-Designs:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a
Linux Insite-Designs 3.5.0-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:47:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Check for new bios it may help. Bumblebee is far from perfect

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KingRudi (guit4eva) said : 		#4

I updated the BIOS, but no luck:(

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

I suggest you report a bug

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#6

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