Manually control fan speed on laptop?

Massive Attack · 14 Feb 2007 at 22:34

hi guys,

cpu on my lappy is reaching 60 °c and it gets quite uncomfortable on my lap, the fan is hardly spinning at all is there anyway to get the fan speed up, tried speed fan not doing anything, laptop is a dell inspiron 1501

cheers

CHUDS · 14 Feb 2007 at 23:44

you know that can be dangerous for your balls lol (not joking)

artaxerxes · 15 Feb 2007 at 00:17

Get a laptop cooler thing. Lian Li do a nice one.

artaxerxes · 15 Feb 2007 at 00:21

I8KGui

i googled 'dell inspiron 1501 manual fan control' - it was mentioned in the top hit.

Are you banned from google?

Massive Attack · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:39

artaxerxes said:
Are you banned from google?

yes why?

Massive Attack · 15 Feb 2007 at 14:50

that software is incompatable with this dell laptop, anyone else have any suggestions?

Massive Attack · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:07

bump

jas72 · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:12

you forgot to write spec me in your title so no one will look at it

artaxerxes · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:20

Massive Attack said:
that software is incompatable with this dell laptop, anyone else have any suggestions?

Sorry for the link and run and the snarky google comment. It seems you Dell is the only one not supported by that program!

I have to reiterate the laptop cooler suggestion OR some means of downclocking the Turion on the fly.

Massive Attack · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:27

artaxerxes said:
Sorry for the link and run and the snarky google comment. It seems you Dell is the only one not supported by that program!
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lmfao thats my luck

GuruJockStrap · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:35

That fan should be spinning up, especially at 60oC!

I've got a Pentium M Dell Laptop and up to 45oC, the fan is silent (basically off). As soon as the temperature goes over 45oC, the fan kicks in. Never seen load temps go higher than 60oC. On a side note, I did replace the pap thermal compound between the CPU and heatsink with something a bit better

If its 60oC then thats going to cause some long term damage, probably not to the CPU but to other components inside the tight case (Hard Drive!).

ANDARIAL · 16 Feb 2007 at 16:36

http://www.pbus-167.com/
try this.doesn`t work with all though

Massive Attack · 16 Feb 2007 at 18:34

ANDARIAL said:
http://www.pbus-167.com/
try this.doesn`t work with all though

thanks for the link installing now will soon see if it works

Massive Attack · 16 Feb 2007 at 18:56

its installed but it wont let me eneable notebook hardware control, i cant see any setting for the fans i take it its in the harware control tab which i cant enable, oh well worth a shot

ANDARIAL · 16 Feb 2007 at 19:56

it needs dot net 2 to work.have you installed that?
plus you need administrator priviledges to run i think

Massive Attack · 16 Feb 2007 at 20:00

ANDARIAL said:
it needs dot net 2 to work.have you installed that?
plus you need administrator priviledges to run i think

yep got that and im admin

ANDARIAL · 16 Feb 2007 at 20:16

from what i remember you set the temps the fans start and stop,not the actual speed it self
works on my 2 dells anyway
also put it on a dixons lappy (works even better on that (today actually

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