A followup. I changed the setting to Adaptive, but the fan still runs nearly all the time. Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks! Strange that, since adaptive is what Centrino is all about, my ThinkPad 42 would come pre-set without it operating. It's great now, though.

Greetings. I'm new to this forum, and to ThinkPads, having just made the jump from a Dell. I've got 2 questions. Somewhere on the forum I saw a post regarding the fan, which said that it could be made to stop running nearly constantly by switching to an "adaptive" power setting. What is an adaptive ...