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    How can I tell the fan is on or not?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by rockharder, Mar 28, 2007.

  1. rockharder

    rockharder Notebook Evangelist

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    How can I tell it is on or not other than listening the noise? I tried speedfan, but it doesn't read anything for me.
     
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    you can only tell if its on by listening to it.
     
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    Zero The Random Guy

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    You can listen to it, or you can put you hand at near the outlet vent to feel if there is any sort of warm air exiting the notebook. That would indicate that the fan was operating.
     
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    That is bad. I can't feel hot air coming out. But I do suspect some kind of noise from the fan, may be in low speed. I do hear noise is louder if I run video encoding in full speed and the temp goes to 64C. It goes back to "quite noise" when the temp back to 54C.

    Would this mean the fan is always on in a low speed?
     
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    frozen sun Notebook Consultant

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    The fan wud run at a lower speed till it detects temperature going up.. Then it will speed up to a medium and if thats not enuf to bring down the temp, it will go to a high speed. When the temp comes down, the fan also will slow down, eventually.. But in certain cases its possible that the fan will go directly to the high speed mode to contain the heat skipping the medium position.. That happens when u r running a heavy application..
     
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    I looked around apps, but none of them work with HP V/DVs fan, not even in Linux.
     
    rockharder, Mar 28, 2007
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