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Does the fancontrol work on the T60?

Thanks!

on my t60 the fancontrol is not working. but i hope this will change.

if somebody have infos, please post.

thx

sven

Someone said it works.
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... ht=#139402


so does it work on T60 or not

Unless something significant changed about the EC and how the ACPI access it, the Fan Control Utility should be able to work as it is independent of everything expect the EC, the WinIO driver, and everything else in between.

I just installed Fancontrol on my T60 and things seem to be working fine.

So it does work, as expected. Good

With Fancontrol on Smartmode on my T60 (2007-63U):
Setting - RPM
0 = OFF
1,2 = ~3000RPM
3,4,5 = ~3300RPM
6,7 = ~4000RPM

Fancontrol doesn't report speeds any higher than ~4000RPM when the BIOS is controlling the fan.

Settings 1 and 2 are very quiet. In many environments I probably couldn't really tell the difference between off and 1,2. 3,4,5 are a bit louder, but not bad enough to really bother me. 6,7 are noticably louder and a little annoying.

With normal use the the BIOS sets the fan to around the 3,4,5 settings. This puts the CPU around 44C and the GPU around 65C. I am using smartmode to keep the fan in mode 1,2 during normal use. This raises the temps only a few degrees C

I cannot use the fancontrol on my T60. Here is the issue:

[2006-3-25 23:36:57] Warning: Can't read Status (possible conflict with other software)

Maybe it is the software conflict but I don't know which software causes the problem.

bibo, do you have NHC installed? If so try disabling cpu monitoring.

Hello,
I am a Thinkpad Newbie, where can I find the tool?

How does it work?
thank you
Marciavelli

Marciavelli wrote:where can I find the tool?

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=17715

Hello again,
as proposed I downloaded FanControl and spent some time to read the "readme" carefully. Then I switched into Smart-Mode and the fan started to run continously in the highest mode (7). Thus the fan was even louder than using my T60 without FanControl. What is the reason for this behavior? I think it`s maybe because the GPU has a temperature of about 60. But how to solve the problem?

Thank you

Marciavelli

Marciavelli wrote:Hello again,
as proposed I downloaded FanControl and spent some time to read the "readme" carefully. Then I switched into Smart-Mode and the fan started to run continously in the highest mode (7). Thus the fan was even louder than using my T60 without FanControl. What is the reason for this behavior? I think it`s maybe because the GPU has a temperature of about 60. But how to solve the problem?

Thank you

Marciavelli

Fancontrol bases the speed off the highest temp it detects. My GPU is always about 20C hotter than the core and everything else. I adjusted the fancontrol.ini settings to raise the speeds at higher temps.

Also, please note that the default values in fancontrol.ini were obtained on a T43 in the beginning and tweaked for other models; as far as I know, these values are not optimal for the T60. You will have to come up with your own control parameters for the T60 if you want to use the Fan Control Utility; it isn't that hard....but I don't think that running it on a T60 off the vaules from the T4X Series would be efficient.

Other than that, it should work fine.

Also, you can ignore certain sensors as well; I do imagine they haven't changed how many sensors there are and what values they have identifying them on the new T60 mobos.

I started using fan control on my T60, although I didn't really need it cause its not that loud, it seemed to work well when I turned off the NHC.

But today, i found it twice that the explorer (not internet explorer) halted showing 50% CPU level constantly in the task manager. I had to end the process and restart the explorer. And then while the fan control utility still seems to be working, the icon on the tray disappeared. I had to end the process of fancontrol from the task manager again and retart it.

I'm not sure this kind of malfunction was reported from T4x and other machines but something seems to be wrong with T60, unless my machine (2days old) is going astray.

even wtihout NHC or any other utility that i know of i still somtimes get the conflict message.


2007-83G T60P

festher wrote:even wtihout NHC or any other utility that i know of i still somtimes get the conflict message.


2007-83G T60P

That has been reported with the FCU and happens every now and then; so far as I can tell, it doesn't harm anything but generates an eventlog log...it doesn't do much else as it tries again and it will eventually implement the control settings.

yes but after 10 faulty tries, acording to the ini, the fancontrol switch to bios mode and it seems like that is also always the mode i find my fancontrol in, after a while.

Another problem is the bios mode... but i made a knew post about that.