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    Will SpeedFan do me mischief?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dark Heart, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. Dark Heart

    Dark Heart Notebook Consultant

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    http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

    Is this program safe to run, I have downloaded it but I am not installing it until I get proper advice. Wikipedia do have a stub article on it, but since it's a stub, I cannot deem that as useful.

    If it is safe do not try to lead me towards software that might be better.

    If it isn't safe, then you can lead me towards better software, mainly temperature measurement and fan speed control.
     
    Dark Heart, Jun 18, 2008
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    It's safe alright, as long as you don't try to modify the Advanced Settings without knowing what are your doing :)
     
    ATG, Jun 18, 2008
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    Give it a go, As long as you are careful, just keep out of the advanced settings as the previous post recommends.
     
    ROBO HUNTER, Jun 18, 2008
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    Its safe but you wont be able to control the fans, so you might aswell use HWMonitor
     
    flipfire, Jun 18, 2008
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    Xirurg ORLY???

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    ^Agree :D :D :p
     
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  6. Phil

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    It's funny, almost everyone who downloads this program wants to control their fanspeed. And the thing this program does not offer is control of fanspeed. How they picked that name puzzles me.
     
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    Dark Heart Notebook Consultant

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    If you need a tool that can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes, then you came to the right place. SpeedFan is the software to go!

    It's in the first sentence of that page...
     
    Dark Heart, Jun 18, 2008
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    I know it's says so but I have never been able to make it work on my laptops.

    Have you?

    Maybe the tool is meant for desktops.
     
    Phil, Jun 18, 2008
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    I've tried speedfan on 3 laptops and 2 desktops, I was able to control the fans speed only on the one of the desktops.

    Playing with the advanced settings I managed to stop the fans or push em on the highest speed on one of the laptops(Asus Z94L), but this is not exactly 'control' :)
     
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    Dark Heart Notebook Consultant

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    Nope, no fan control...And it doesn't even detect my HDD. And I believe it does have S.M.A.R.T....

    The support page shows a bunch of motherboards that it can use to control the fan speed, but I don't know how to identify mine :/
     
    Dark Heart, Jun 18, 2008
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    ROBO HUNTER, Jun 18, 2008
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    A bunch of motherboards for desktops..... It should detect the hdd though..Go to the S.M.A.R.T tab and select the hdd from the list. Or you mean it doesn't measure the temp?
     
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    I did go to the SMART tab and there is nothing on the list :/.
    I clicked the two arrows on the right of that tab, assuming they are to refresh the detection, but it didn't do anything.

    But I got HD Tune and Notebook Hardware Control (NHC)

    Which both have much better control than SpeedFan...

    Although this fits the topic of the thread, I fail to see the reasoning behind posting that...
     
    Dark Heart, Jun 18, 2008
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    I always used NHC until i discovered RMClock. I prefer RMClock now because it is much lighter and has a smaller footprint. They both offer some similar and some different functions.

    It was helpful to me because I did not exactly know what mischief was.
     
    Phil, Jun 19, 2008
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