if it is ever on, try install TPFANcontrol and see what the temperature is on all 11 sensors: CPU, GPU, HDD, BATTERY, etc. If they are shooting up towards 80+, you may have a bad fan issue. You can in fact control the fan with that program. Another thing to do is as such: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=372176 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_fan_noise http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=25304&start=180 you may want to use RMClock to control more.
