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    Clevo M570TU, Sager 5796 automatic silent fan mode

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by dbacchus, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. dbacchus

    dbacchus Notebook Consultant

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    So I had to sleep in my office room a couple of nights lately... And discovered that the fan noise is getting on my nerves, if the laptop is not in sleep mode. I have the latest bios .17, so pressing "(A)" button puts fans into the silent mode.
    Question: does anybody know a way to turn on "silent fan mode" automaticallly when the laptop is idle for ... minutes, i.e. without having to press (A) button? It doesn't make any sense that the fan is blasting (well, still loud) when CPU/GPU are totally idle...
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    dont leave your notebook on when you are not using it... thats a recommendation for everyone.

    as for fan noise, I do not there there is a way to set Silent Mode to come on when you are idle.

    If you have a really good notebook cooler, it can keep the components cool enough so that the fans wont need to come on (with auto fan speed mode).
     
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    Audigy Notebook Evangelist

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    Usually you could use an script to trigger keys... but the Fn key on laptops is not really a key, but a hardware switch that changes the function of a group of keys via the keyboard controller at low level.

    So it can't be simulated using scripts or other software methods.

    ;)
     
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    dbacchus Notebook Consultant

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    Well, pressing (A) button also triggers a response from a graphic software "Hotkey" (it shows a picture of fan with "Silent" or "Normal" mode text). That is, of course hardware -> software communication. So I was wondering if a reverse communication was possible... Does anybody know if the fan mode switch works before (without) installing Hotkey? If so then, most likely, it is impossible. But if it doesn't work before installing "hotkey", then, obviosly, this software does exactly that (and the question is only to find out how).

    EDIT: I tried to uninstall "Hotkey" and the switch still worked (although without showing the picture), but clearly that experiment wasn't "clean" enough. Maybe the drivers were not really uninstalled.
     
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    ThmsLngbrd Notebook Guru

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    The 'A' Silent Mode button on my M570TU has always worked, regardless of whether the hotkey software is installed or not. I was also using the Silent Mode button long before I had ever installed the hotkey software.
     
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