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    app to check all temperatures and control fan speeds?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by unknown00, Jul 19, 2010.

  1. unknown00

    unknown00 Notebook Consultant

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    topic says it all, suggestions?
     
    unknown00, Jul 19, 2010
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    pstrisik, Jul 19, 2010
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    unknown00, Jul 19, 2010
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    Something is wrong then. Though I don't currently use it, I did have it installed and running fine for a few days on a T510 with W7x64.

    I'm not aware of any others that will run well on 64bit and/or on a Thinkpad. You can try Speedfan, but I couldn't get the fan speed functions to work for me.
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    pstrisik, Jul 19, 2010
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    Speedfan should do it, but be careful, I found its GUI awkward
     
    vimvq1987, Jul 19, 2010
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    did you extract and just run? it says i'm missing drivers
     
    unknown00, Jul 20, 2010
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    TPFan control is the best and works 99.9% of the time :)

    Make sure to go to the actual tpfan control homepage to get the latest download:

    TPFanControl by troubadix
     
    MastahRiz, Jul 20, 2010
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    pstrisik Notebook Evangelist

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    When downloaded, it should be a zip file with just setup.exe within it. That should do an install with any needed drivers supplied I would think. If you just had files without an install process, I would try a new download.

    Note: Thanks for MastahRiz, I just realized the sourceforge link I posted has an older version. Download from: http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/donate.html.

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    pstrisik, Jul 20, 2010
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    I run tpfancontrol on my T510 with 64 bit Windows 7 with no problems.... it only displays cpu temp, no other temps, but other then that it seems to work fine.
     
    infinus, Jul 20, 2010
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    If you need to use tpfancontrol then there is probably a problem somewhere that should be dealt with.
     
    roblen, Jul 22, 2010
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