The fan on my AAO worked fine for the first few weeks I had it. Last night, I noticed that it was making an annoying "buzzing" noise quite unlike anything it had produced before. I tried shutting it down, but the problem remains. I downloaded a utility to control the fan speed, and it only turns on the fan when the cpu temperature rises to 70 degrees C. That isn't too high a temp to damage the processor or any of the components, is it? I don't think it would be, but I'm a little cautious about changing the defaults that acer built into the fan control.