Fan noise

[runningman]

Hi there, I was just wondering if my X31 is experience a problem, or just behaving normally? I have noticed that when playing videos (YouTube, Google Video etc) my fan comes on and is quite loud, spinning furiously. This only lasts a few minutes, usually stopping shortly after shutting down said videos, or sometimes while the videos are still playing. I've checked for viruses and spyware but so far no problems. Any ideas?



Thinkpad X31 2673 QG6 1GB RAM 40 GB HDD

[sjthinkpader]

The X31 GPU cannot support the video encoding used in YouTube. So the CPU is taking the load. Even T43p behave this way when playing YouTube.