In message , VanguardLH
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
I've gone back using a system restore, and things _seem_ to be OK. I
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Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
Found TOSHIBA fan driver
Found HGST HTS541010B7E610 (1000.2GB)
Found ACPI temperature
Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 380 @ 2.53GHz
End of detection
Loaded 4 events
I'm assuming the HD is monitored via SMART. Under the Info tab, it says
No known chipset detected; under Charts, it gives me the four choices
under temperatures, and nothing under fan speeds or voltages. Under
Configure, it confirms (?) that HD0 is via SMART, the other three being
via ISA.
SMART attribute 194 reports temperature, so that's how Speedfan gets it
from the HDD/SDD.
That's what I assume too (although it does say it "Found" it when it was
scanning the ISA bus, see above).
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On the Info tab, there is a "Find SMBus devices" button. Does it find
anything? I suspect the laptop came with bundled software. I remember
Well it says "Close all running programs.", which I haven't: I don't
know if it has a way of telling whether I have. When I click or
otherwise activate the "Start scanning" button, it presses and the
dotted line around it goes, but nothing happens - nothing appears in the
window, and the button is still called "Start scanning". I assume it
scanned and didn't find anything.
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lot of the fluff but some were essential. Could be Toshiba is using
their own software to control fan speed and that interferes with
Sounds likely - or, the control is entirely in hardware. (It does seem
to go in steps though, which suggests software.)
Speedfan querying the devices. Only one fan control program should be
managing the fan speeds.
Speedfan would report what it found on the SMBus but not in your case.
There is no mention of "Scanning SMBus at address" or of it finding a
controller (for the fan).
Indeed.
Mobile processors are made to be low-power (reduced heat) but need extra
cooling when there is any load on them. All the laptops that I've used
have cycled through low and high fan speeds repetively while I used
them. Different fan speed controllers have different hysteresis: the
rate at which they will change fan speed based on the rate of
temperature change. Speedfan might not be a good choice for a mobile
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In Speedfan under its Fan Control tab, did you enable Advanced mode
(where you can name a profile, select a fan, and then determine its
speed curve)? http://tinyurl.com/ybwpo3j5 is someone else's example. I
don't bother with this level of control. If you are using advanced
mode, could be there's nothing defined for the speed gradients or
they're wrong from what you expect or want.
If I tick the Advanced box in that tab, a blank window comes up, with
Add and Remove tabs; if I click Add, it prompts for a name. If I type
test, it adds it to the empty box, but nothing else appears - no
controllers or anything. I Cancelled my way out of there. The system
seems to be working - all three are in the high fifties, and the fan
seems to be coming on and going off as required, which I don't _think_
it was when Corsair Link had anything to do with it. I'm not going to
mess with it! (Well, other than keeping SpeedFan _purely as a monitor_.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one. -Cato the Elder, statesman, soldier, and writer (234-149 BCE)