porsche6714 Posted February 24, 2007 CID Share Posted February 24, 2007 Hello I recently found an old compaq Armada in my basement that actually worked perfectly fine. I loaded XP on there and everything seemed to e working fine but it does seem to be geting pretty hot and the fan never goes on. I know the fan works because it spins on startup. I was wondering if there is a program that i could use to manually control the fan speed. I allready tried speedfan but it wont let me change fan speed. It dosent even show up in the list of fans. Any other software out there for this purpose. I searched google allready but couldnt come up with anything good. Thanks a l ot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted February 24, 2007 CID Share Posted February 24, 2007 To my knowledge, if the fan is not variable speed or controlled by hardware, your not going to get what you want. The fan doesn't show up , most likely no controller for this. Those baby's ran hot anyhow, I always keep canned air around to keep all heat sinks free from dust and debris. I have an old dell Lattitude XPi running win 3.1(look that one up haha), and she runs hot as hell. I also have an old Acer Extensa 711TE that will roast out as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted February 24, 2007 CID Share Posted February 24, 2007 a software application called speedfan - may work for you to control the fans speed http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php You may have to use some of the commands / switches to get it to work Good Luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted February 24, 2007 CID Share Posted February 24, 2007 a software application called speedfan - may work for you to control the fans speed http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php You may have to use some of the commands / switches to get it to work Good Luck he said he already tried speedfan. I use Notebook Hardware Control, maybe it'll work for you. http://www.pbus-167.com/nhc/nhc.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted February 24, 2007 CID Share Posted February 24, 2007 he said he already tried speedfan. I use Notebook Hardware Control, maybe it'll work for you. http://www.pbus-167.com/nhc/nhc.htm I saw that in his post However I'll bet you did not use or try the commands or switches thats why a post about that application Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted February 25, 2007 CID Share Posted February 25, 2007 he said he already tried speedfan. However I'll bet you did not use or try the commands or switches Hmm...I'm wondering if he tried "new fan"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keetan Posted February 25, 2007 CID Share Posted February 25, 2007 I'd recommend trying to see if the BIOS config will allow it to be on all the time... or set parameters for it to turn on when the temp rises. If it doesn't have the config option for fan control/speed, look online for a new bios version. Worst case senario, you can always buy a laptop bezel for the bottom (having fans already installed in it) to attach to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 25, 2007 CID Share Posted February 25, 2007 I would check to see if there are drivers for the chipset because that is what controls fans on laptops... However, I have not looked into the specific model in question here.. but it may not support XP.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted February 25, 2007 CID Share Posted February 25, 2007 Hello I recently found an old compaq Armada in my basement that actually worked perfectly fine. I loaded XP on there and everything seemed to e working fine but it does seem to be geting pretty hot and the fan never goes on. I know the fan works because it spins on startup. I haven't had a laptop apart yet but I have seen fans in PC's spin on start up and then after booting I have noticed they have stopped. The solution for me was change the fan so in those cases the fan must have been bad, therefore "new fan". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 26, 2007 CID Share Posted February 26, 2007 If you must turn to an external laptop cooler I recommend the one from Antec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeffwalker9999 Posted February 27, 2007 CID Share Posted February 27, 2007 My 2 Cents - Again I think that one of the switches --- should work see this url http://www.almico.com/sfarticle.php?id=3 How to use SpeedFan's command line parameters? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SpeedFan defines several command line switches: /NOPCISCAN /NOSMBSCAN /NOSUPERIO /SLOWDETECT /TIGERMP /NOTIMER /NOSMARTSCAN /NOSCSISCAN /NOACPISCAN /NOTOSHIBA /NOASUSSCAN /NONVIDIAI2C /NOAMDK8SCAN /SMBDEBUG and others on the url / page shown above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junerian Posted February 27, 2007 CID Share Posted February 27, 2007 I'd just go with a new fan To my knowledge, if the fan is not variable speed or controlled by hardware, your not going to get what you want. The fan doesn't show up , most likely no controller for this. Those baby's ran hot anyhow, I always keep canned air around to keep all heat sinks free from dust and debris. I have an old dell Lattitude XPi running win 3.1(look that one up haha), and she runs hot as hell. I also have an old Acer Extensa 711TE that will roast out as well. haha best windows ever though it was out to early for my generation to enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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