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    Toshiba Qosmio X70-B-11D fan control via acpi tables (warning:am noob)?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by bernd7, May 23, 2021.

  1. bernd7

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    Hello, I am also one of the people who bought a Toshiba Qosmio x70-B-11d notebook at the end of 2015 in a german "Media Markt" electronic store.

    It has done me good sevice so far, even though it's age becomes more and more obvious.
    normal stuff like tear and break, the plastic screw holes breaking out, etc.

    little stuff and big stuff, it has it's issues here and there.

    one of the main things that I rather can't ignore is the fan.
    it did get insanely loud, literally making the whole notebook vibrating.
    and that not jsut at full throttle, but right starting at the second the notebook is on.

    gladly I seem to have been able to solve that by buying a new fan and installing it (oviously more of the plastic screw holes breaking again in the process).
    seems to work fine, like I literally almost cant hear the fan at all anymore (but it works, I can hear it if I listen close enough.

    but one thing I nontheless would love to be able to is having control over the fan settings, like controlling it's rotation speed at certain heat levels.

    for most notebooks, there seems to be a setting either in the bios or the producer of the notebook just gives
    a program for it directly.

    but I dont know of such programs and after looking multiple times in the bios, there is no fan option.
    there was like one checkbox for something fan related but that was literally it.
    no heat behavior control or anything, as other notebooks seem to have it.
    all these convenient speedfan and other programs dont even seem to find the fan either.

    so after reading, I stumbled upon something called the acpi tables.
    where, in some cases at least, the fan behavior is controlled by stuff written in there.

    I also found a sort of guide here in the forum
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/fan-control-on-asus-prime-ux31-ux31a-ux32a-ux32vd.705656/

    where some guy(s) have done fan control via acpi tables apparently.

    I sadly dont understand most of what is written there but sure would love to learn it. and learn how to controlk my notebooks fan behavior with those acpi tables too.

    I already got myself a program called "rw-everything" which seems to show me all kinds of acpi tables.
    I seem to be able to change values in there too (no idea what does what there. also some values seem to b updating frequently, so my changes get overwritten again, other values dont change at all).

    can someone more smarter than me pleas enlighten if and if so, how I could use that rw-everything program to change these acpi tables and what is what in there, so where which temperature treshold is saved and such?

    Is someone here familiar with this stuff and could help me please? :)



    I also obviously considered already to solve all my problems, by it fan or others, by simply buying another such notebook and changing back and forth the items in it.

    but let me be honest here:
    I paid in 2015, that is almost 6 years ago!, I paid back then around 1100 euros for the NEW toshiba notebook. nowadays from my ebay and such research, there is literally only 2 guys there selling their like 4 year old, obviously well used, old notebook.
    and still want at least 600-700 euros for it!

    Think about it, 6 years ago, it cost NEW 1100 bucks and now, just cause of low supply, they still ask for 700 bhucks for their USED 3+ years old notebooks!

    I rather will do some ugly DIY work than letting me get ripped off that badly!
    (and I mean the ugly part. cause a used(!) bottom case costs 30 bucks and a used uper case costs 30 bucks, I am thinking of just using long screws and disks to reestablish the connection and the "getting held together" that the previous but now broken plastic parts did)

    enough ranting about random things, sorry about that, so is someone familiar with toshibas fan controls and how to use acpi tables to control them? :)
     
  2. bernd7

    bernd7 Newbie

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    help please? :O