ASUS & Notebook Hardware Control crashing

Hi there.

I have a V6V, the first generation of that notebook. Since the famed ASUS apparently cannot, for the life of it, write a notebook BIOS that balances fan noise and heat, I have experienced the fruitless quest to control the fan myself -- which ASUS does not make easy.

I thought I had found this answer:

1. BIOS 1201as (which keeps the fan off until the CPU exceeds 60c, thereby avoiding the early and needless high RPMs of the previous BIOS);
2. NHC 1.10 beta 1 (on which currrent fan control actually works, allowing me to have the fan kick in on low RPMs at 40c and thereby keep the CPU around 50c).

The trouble is that the notebook crashes now. Not a full crash, but I'm left with nothing but a blank desktop image -- no icons, programs, or taskbar. I've more or less that identified the culprit as NHC, probably the fan control.

Questions:

1. Anyone else had this problem?
2. Anyone find any tricks to stop it?

Thanks!

 

I had a slightly different situation with my Z63a. When the fan speed control was activated, my whole system was running at speed slower than a snail, it did not crash. I then never run NHC with fan speed control.