Fan thresolds, changeable? Need help.

Heya,

This has been bothering me quite a bit. Is there seriously no way to change the temperatures the fan responds to with 100% speed ? Mine ONLY really kicks up a notch when the cpu hits 77-78C. That's ridiculous, as when undervolted my cpu never hits those temps, so the gpu is left with a half-working fan and is really taking all the (temp) hits..
Laptop is G1Sn.

 

Yeah, theres a typo in the topic

Anyway, found this: http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1108622 and noticed there's some ACPI files for NHC here http://nhc.yourcopy.de/overview/. Well, not any for G1S or Sn

Is this just a case that no one bothered with it or is it really hard ?

 

Not really. Ik8FanUI allows for fan control, but it is only for Dell notebooks; fan control is typically a function of the BIOS itself, and is not a program-level function.

 

Yeah, figured it had something to do with the bios. Read somewhere that nibitor/nhc don't support 9500M GS/Santa Rosa platform, so at the moment there isnt any way, nowhere, for the G1Sn to configure fan speeds ?

I envy the people who get to do this with this simple interface.. I mean, what use is a fan when it virtually never goes to full speed in a platform where it is the only thing that cools the whole thing down ?

 

Not that I know of. If you feel that the fan does not kick soon enough, it may be advisable to buy a notebook cooling pad.

 

Yep, already ordered one. Just thought to look into this in the meantime.

 

Btw, I'm pretty sure that the ThinkPad fan control utility you displayed is a Linux application that runs under GTK+. In Linux, fan control is possible (but not easy).