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

[WilsonTung]

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

 

[Mookow]

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

 

[osage]

Replace the fan..............

 

[lowtech1]

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.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

lol

 

[WilsonTung]

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?

 

[jcovercash]

Ummmm

 

[WilsonTung]

"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?

 

[Gunbuster]

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.

 

[WilsonTung]

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?

 

[downhiller80]

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