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03-16-2004, 12:42 AM
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Cooling fan
I have a Toshiba satellite 2230cds laptop. I was under the impression that it did not have a fan for the cpu however, a few days ago I was into it to check connections for the cd and I noticed that there is one. I decided to see if it ever comes on so, I started the computer and watched. The fan started up immediately with the power button but stopped when the boot process was about halfway done and never came on again while the computer was on. I re-booted a few more times and it did the same thing every time.
My question to those of you who might know is, what or where might there be a setting to enable the fan to run full time when on AC power? I have been thru the bios settings and all the likely option areas in the control panel and have only found one place where it gives me a choice of 2 settings - performance or quiet. Neither starts the fan. The laptop is a 550mhz celeron with 192meg ram and running w2k. Although it has not given me any problems yet, I would like to be able to turn the fan on as I think 64C deg is a little on the warm side.
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03-16-2004, 01:21 AM
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The fan is temperature activated, if you want to see for certain run a CPU-intensive task and watch the fan turn on/off.
The Toshiba engineers want to minimize noise and power useage so the fan only comes on when needed.
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03-16-2004, 09:44 AM
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Thanks for the reply PrntRhd, do you know if there is a setting that might lower the temp that it kicks in at? I couldn't find anything to that effect, which I suspected. It seems pretty hot but, I guess it must be OK as it runs fine all the time and I've had it for over a year now. I run it mostly plugged in so, the only time it would become a power issue is when on battery power.
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03-16-2004, 10:46 PM
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Electrically speaking, there should be a way to do that. Temperature-controlled fans have a temp sensor to control their speed. Theoretically, you should be able to bypass the sensor and fool the fan into thinking it needs to run at full speed constantly. But of course you'd need the electrical specs of the fan.
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