Fancontrol for Vista

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Fancontrol for Vista

#1 Post by Torque » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:10 pm

Has anyone found a fancontrol utility that works in Vista?
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#2 Post by arni » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:46 pm

Both utils, TPfancontrol and PFControl work fine with Vista when you start them as "administrator".

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#3 Post by Torque » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:09 am

arni wrote:Both utils, TPfancontrol and PFControl work fine with Vista when you start them as "administrator".
Great, thanks alot :)
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#4 Post by tomh009 » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:19 am

tpfancontrol generally is working very nicely on my X61 with Vista Business, but I am seeing it crash (?) a few times a day; Vista displays a message "fancontrol has stopped working", and I then need to restart it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or, better yet, found a solution?
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#5 Post by dsigma6 » Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:44 am

The only error I got on Vista Ultimate was "error loading...." I believe that happens when running as a service, and another dependent service has not started yet.
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#6 Post by crazyfrog » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:14 am

Seems there is no luck trying TPfancontrol in Vista 64-bit, because WinIO.sys can't be loaded.
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