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    anyone tried ECView controlling fans speed?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by littlecx, May 16, 2014.

  1. littlecx

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    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    This software was made for Clevo's internal FAN value tests to use in EC firmware development and not for daily FAN control by the end-user.
    On top of that it is an old version, which leaked a few years ago, that has the habit of just locking up and loosing control over the FANs.
    If people set too low values or it errors out it may very kill the system...
     
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    how to get the last version then?
     
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    You can't unless you work for ITE or Clevo's BIOS partner and want to get fired. ;)
     
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    Okay Prema, i understood !
    How much do you want ? :D
    We will be silent like tomb ! ^^

    More seriously, there is no other way to control fan ( i just want to lower a bit the first speed , like 2400 to 2000 rpm ) ?
    R\W everthing cannot do the trick ?

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    I tried to use the WMI class CLEVO_GET's SetCPUFANControl, but it can only reset the fan to auto mode no matter what parameter I give. There is no other useful function exposed by WMI CLEVO_GET, except the fan RPM reporting which is also in ECview.

    ECView seems to rely on dpmemio, probably direct access to BIOS or some secret memory address. There is no info available unless I disassemble it. I'm out of options for now...... :(


    PS: ECView does work here though.
     
    aqd, Aug 3, 2014
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