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    Asus A6Tc fan control

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gafai, Mar 8, 2009.

  1. gafai

    gafai Newbie

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    My fan on start is on max speed after I upgrade bios.

    I try NHC but it not work directly, after some minute fan speed changed to slow but after temperature get to 60-70....celzius it dont changed to higher speed....

    I try SpeedFan but it was same.....

    Can someone help how to control fan speed on Asus A6Tc notebook?
    Thanks
     
  2. gafai

    gafai Newbie

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    Attaching report from SpeedFAN:

    Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:YES SpeedFan:YES
    I/O properly initialized
    Linked ISA BUS at $0290
    Linked nVidia MCP51 SMBUS at $0600
    Linked nVidia MCP51 SMBUS at $0700
    Found nVidia GeForce 7300 Go
    Unable to read Video BIOS
    Linked nVidiaI2C0 SMBUS at $3D403E3F
    Linked nVidiaI2C1 SMBUS at $3D403637
    Linked nVidiaI2C2 SMBUS at $3D405051
    Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
    Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $0600...
    Address $17 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $28 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $29 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $2D appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $2E appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $3A appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $4A appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    MAX6657 found on SMBus at $4C
    Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $0700...
    Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403E3F...
    Address $2D appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $2E appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $48 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $49 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $4C appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403637...
    Address $2D appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $2E appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $48 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $49 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $4C appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D405051...
    Address $2D appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $2E appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $48 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    Address $49 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
    MAX6648 (ID=$59) found on SMBus at $4C
    SMART Enabled for drive 0
    Found Hitachi HTS541210H9AT00 (100,0GB)
    Found ACPI temperature (73,0C)
    End of detection
    Loaded 0 events
     
  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Since this was not answered and maybe not solved: SpeedFan does not work well with newer notebooks.

    I suggest reverting back to older BIOS if the new one is causing problems with the fan speeds.