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I expected the battery life to not be as good, but Windows 8 CP seems to kick the fans on very often. I closed out of SQLMS, VS2010, and Zune. It still comes on fairly often and I'm not sure why. Any suggestions?

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  • +1 had the same with earlier models and Windows 7 as well, never found a true answer - my wild uneducated guess is something in the bootcamp power management drivers is not entirely correct
    – stijn
    Jul 16, 2012 at 16:08
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    Why are you testing against the customer preview?
    – Ramhound
    Jul 16, 2012 at 16:27
  • What exactly am I testing? I stated that I'm developing an application using Windows 8 CP and was curious why the fans came on so often. Windows 7 isn't going to help me develop Windows 8 apps.
    – user1290284
    Jul 17, 2012 at 1:12

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I would check if the machine is even running hot. It may just be that the fans are set to kick in at a lower temperature.

Additionally, I would check the CPU/GPU utilization rates. If those are too high, then you can check what is using up all of those resources.

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