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CPU Fan - Update - Software "SpeedStep" for P2?

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WilsonTung

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I have an old Dell Latitude CPi, and the cooling fan has NEVER turned on, even when SiSoft Sandra listed the thermal probe as reporting a 70 C temp on the CPU. I am speculating that the fan requires a driver, but I am not sure about this since the Dell website has no such thing.

The fan and/or its controling chips has no listing under the hardware profile in Windows.

As a stopgap measure, I have installed a program called 'Rain' that claims to idle the CPU and lower the temperature. Does anyone have any experience with this program? Does it really lower CPU temperatures?

Or maybe I should stick a huge fan on the air intake duct 😀
 
Dude, step away from the crack and drop that pipe, NOW!!!!!!!!!!

On the serious side, my roommate had a Dell laptop and he had to put it on a cookie cooling sheet when he ran it for long periods.... it melted the desktop a little, before we just the sheet. I think Dells just run hot as hell
 

Fn is not an intelligence device that do not need device driver.

Check to see if the fan power lead is pug in, or is there a break/short in the wire.

It could be that your fan is a defective/dead fan since you got he puter.
 
Ok.... I ran the Dell Diagnostic and the fan does turn on/off and the speed variation works fine.

Still, I think it runs too hot... so who knows anything about this 'Rain' program that I found on tweakfiles?
 
"Ummmm"

What is that supposed to mean? I am simply asking some advice on how to cool the CPU in my laptop.

Are u going to sit there in shock

:Q

or give me what advice u can?

😛
 
If you dont get any errors it's not a problem, why waste more battery on running the fan

Some older Toshiba's had fans that never came on.
 
Well, the 'Rain' Program I found on Tweakfiles reduced my core CPU temp on the mobile P2-266 from 68/69 Celsius to 50/51 Celsius, and the ambient case temp from 60 C to about 50 C.

Who says PII's can't have SpeedStep too? 🙂
 
If you're running win 9x then the Rain program will _significantly_ cool your processor. If you're running win nt/2000/xp then the operating system has the same thing built in so rain makes no difference.

- seb
 
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