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    Monitoring T61 temperatures

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jd1010, Jun 2, 2008.

  1. jd1010

    jd1010 Notebook Evangelist

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    I've recently upgraded from 2 gigs to 4 gigs of ram. I figure I need to worry less about having programs running in the background and I kind of wanted to see what temperatures my t61 is running at. What free program would be recommended for this?
     
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    "thinkpad fancontrol" but its readings tend to differ with other programs such as "PC Wizard 2008"

    both freeware
     
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    Does thinkpad fancontrol work with the t61 and vista? I found older versions of the program and it seems like its made for the T4x series.
     
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    Thanks for the link. I DL'ed and installed it. My only issue is that I would like to make it so that the fan runs on the Bios setting and not the TPfancontrol settings. I know you can change it to the Bios settings by yourself, but is there anyway to have it on the Bios settings upon starting it?
     
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    try rmclock. you dont have to use the clock features.
     
    techboydino, Jun 2, 2008
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