Reducing fan noise: temperature and fan speed monitor

[chris123]

Hi -- I'm a new owner of a T60 and I was hoping to get a better handle on the inner workings of my machine. Mostly, I want to know how to keep it as cool and quiet as possible.

I've seen users post the temperatures of various components (CPU, GPU, etc) -- where can I find that or is it a download utility?

I am also considering something like Speed Fan or RMClock for adjusting the fan speed.

The fan is always on when I'm on AC and while it's not that loud it does have a pulsing that I find annoying. It pulses about every 30 seconds. It would be good to find a constant fan speed that kept the machine cool enough to run effectively without varying noise levels that are distracting when working in a quiet home environment.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

[tomh009]

TPFanControl will give you details on all the component temperatures.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tp4xfancontrol/

[gjg]

TPFanControl will give you details on all the component temperatures.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tp4xfancontrol/

per the link it shows to support the following:

Thinkpad T4x (T40/T41/T42/T43) notebook series.

question is.....does it work on the t60's ????

[tomh009]

For monitoring temperatures, it will definitely work. I'm not certain whether it will actually be able to control the fan, though.

You could also use NHC (http://www.pbus-167.com/) but it will not provide quite as much component temperature detail.

[jgrobertson]

I fixed a fan noise and heating problem on my 2623DDU. This is a new machine and I started hearing a buzzing sound from the fan area when I tilted the lid back. Also I noticed that when the noise got louder, less air came out of the fan.

Opening it up, I discovered that the antenna wire for the WiFi (grey one that comes through the left hing of the lid) was hitting the fan blades. That made the noise and also stopped the fan from turning.

There was a piece of tape that was supposed to hold the wire away from the fan but it gave away. I put a small wire tie there to tie it to the power wires.

[jns2001]

I tried to use on my T60P with Vista Business and it did not work. Just a heads up!

[gjg]

I tried to use on my T60P with XP and it did not work.

[tomh009]

I tried to use on my T60P with XP and it did not work.

It should work with XP (though not Vista) -- what problem did you have, specifically?

[jgrobertson]

tried to use on my T60P with XP and it did not work.

I tried it on a T60P and it did not work.

[gjg]

error message concerning some Driver issue.

it is mentioned in the readme.

i'm not real computer savy so i backed away from it....lol

[chris123]

TPFanControl will give you details on all the component temperatures.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tp4xfancontrol/

Thanks. I tried downloading it but I couldn't find an exe file to start the thing. Is there a trick to this I'm missing?

[Tholek]

You could also use NHC (http://www.pbus-167.com/) but it will not provide quite as much component temperature detail.

Actually, I think it can provide even more than TPFC, but a ACPI config file has to be written for a particular brand, model and/or series. Some not included in the program are available on their forum from people who created them.

http://www.p35-forum.de/board/

[Daver]

Works on my T60p (8741-A11).

-Daver

[planetf1]

I tried to use on my T60P with Vista Business and it did not work. Just a heads up!

I have it working on my T60 with Vista business

You need to Right click on command prompt and "run as administrator". Then in that window run fancontrol.exe

The driver can't be loaded due to permissions otherwise.

Another alternative is to install the "new" version of tpfan control from
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~schmitzr/tpfcserv.zip - this is best if you just want a tool to quietly manage fan speeds - it provides no UI for reading off the temps.