Runaway cooling fan

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Mint

A friend has an Optiplex 755 and one of the cooling fans runs
constantly.

System Information for Windows shows normal CPU and hard drive
temperatures.

I ended one process that was using a lot of the CPU, but nothing
changed.

Any other things I can look at?

Thanks.
 
Mint said:
A friend has an Optiplex 755 and one of the cooling fans runs
constantly.
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That is a small form factor. I think it has a cpu, hdd, and PS fan.
 
That is a small form factor. I think it has a cpu, hdd, and PS fan.
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Found the problem.

It was a program called TeaTimer.exe that comes with Spybot.

The program is supposed to provide real time protection.

Seriously excessively use of the CPU.

Now, the computer is very quiet.

Andy
 
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<5b9b8886-39e5-45cf-8d84-43d085d9e3ec@r40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Mint
It was a program called TeaTimer.exe that comes with Spybot.

The program is supposed to provide real time protection.

Seriously excessively use of the CPU.
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Seriously? They still haven't fixed that? I'm thinking it was 3 years
ago when I removed that crap from my mom's machine after complaints that
it was running slow, TeaTimer was using 50% of her CPU and 40% of her
RAM.

It's like they want to be Symantec :/
 
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Seriously?  They still haven't fixed that?  I'm thinking it was 3 years
ago when I removed that crap from my mom's machine after complaints that
it was running slow, TeaTimer was using 50% of her CPU and 40% of her
RAM.

It's like they want to be Symantec :/
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Reckin' not. :-)

A friend told me of a funny incident.

There was a card taped on a wall that said, "The worst most dangerous
virus."

When you opened the card, it had a picture of someone that was always
fooling with the company computer.

:-)

Take care,
Andy
 
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<5b9b8886-39e5-45cf-8d84-43d085d9e3ec@r40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Mint


Seriously? They still haven't fixed that? I'm thinking it was 3 years
ago when I removed that crap from my mom's machine after complaints that
it was running slow, TeaTimer was using 50% of her CPU and 40% of her
RAM.

It's like they want to be Symantec :/
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I run teatimer, and it toggles between 0 and 3 % processor use.
Intel Celeron 2.6ghz.
 
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