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Rob-UK

Hi, can you tell me if the fan on a Sony Vaio is supposed to be on all of the time ?

My laptop is a Sony Vaio AR51SU, the fan is on all of the time at various speeds. Sometimes it runs at a lower speed when its in idle and then it runs a lot quicker when you have an application open like a browser etc. This is my first vaio laptop, with previous laptops ive had like a toshiba as an example the fan has only come on when its needed, it stayed off for most of the time and you never heard it.

Is this normal for my Vaio laptop to be doing this where the fan stays on all of the time, its just i`m not familiar with Vaio`s and how they are supposed to perform.

Rob-UK

Rob-UK,

After consider ALL comments and no real answer for you was found, I want to scale this post to Sony support.

Please, give me 02 days and I will back with some news for you.

Any joy at all ? I wouldn`t mind trying to get this sorted within the warranty period if their is a problem.

itbroker

Rob-UK,

The answer from Sony was... can you tell me if this could be due to dust?

Rob-UK

Rob-UK,

The answer from Sony was... can you tell me if this could be due to dust?

Hi, thanks for the reply and taking the time to contact Sony.

Correct me if i`m wrong, havn`t Sony answered my question with a question ? That reply from Sony doesn`t answer anything in my eyes, it just leaves me more in the dark. I`m suprised they couldn`t tell a customer whether the fan on a certain model should be on all the time or whether it should come on intermittently as and when it needs colling.