Fan speed control inside PM

[hsjC]

At first I thought "balance all parameters" would actually have slow down my fan speed when the temperatures are low.
Actually, I don't think it works. I can't tell the difference whether having "balance" or "max performance".
However, if my temps are low, and I go thru editting my power scheme and set "optimize fan control" to either of those two, and save. My fan will drop to a much lower speed at 1600 rpm.
Is there a way to actually make the "fan control" inside PM work?

[gringo001]

I'm alsow looking for fan control. I think that it is impossible to do it in Power Manager but maybe there are some programs to do it. I was trying with SpeedFan but it only reads temperature on my z61m.

Do You have a problem, that when the z61m gets warmer you can hear that another one fan is turning on? This fan has another voice and it is sucks because it often changes speed (it is heard when in there is a silent in the room).

[christopher_wolf]

Is there a way to actually make the "fan control" inside PM work?

Yes, there is a way. It is, however, rather difficult. The only other way I have gotten it to work outside of the Power Manager interface is using RegEdit and changing the relevant registry keys that PM uses in each profile to control the fan. I tinkered around with those for awhile and managed to reproduce changes in the fan behaviour once the modified profile was re-loaded. Although these aren't the kind of huge, Level 5 to Level 2 type changes that you can get with TP FCU and TP FCU is far easier to use.

TP FCU would be an, all around, better program to use for controlling the fan precisely and over a large operational range of RPMs. Unless something really radical got changed with the EC hardware or firmware, it should work fine on a Z61m running Windows XP.