Name: Anonymous 2006-07-29 16:24
Hey guys, I'm currently bored and waiting for my thinkpads.com forums registration email.
So, I have this old R40e(2684-HVG) laptop. Suddenly, the fan stopped working - It just spins once on bootup etc.
So I ended upgrading BIOS to 1.38 and EC to 1.04. No effect.
Thus I decide to open up the laptop, remove the CPU cooling element and give some voltage to the fan. It worked.
Ok, I put the laptop back together and installed tpfancontrol, which yields somewhat weird results. When I set the fan speed to 0-14, it does nothing. Setting it to 15-64 makes it spin once whenever tpfancontrol cycles. 128 (bios setting) causes "couldn't set fan state" error. Otherwise tpfancontrol works well, it reports temperatures and fanspeeds correctly.
wtf?
So, I have this old R40e(2684-HVG) laptop. Suddenly, the fan stopped working - It just spins once on bootup etc.
So I ended upgrading BIOS to 1.38 and EC to 1.04. No effect.
Thus I decide to open up the laptop, remove the CPU cooling element and give some voltage to the fan. It worked.
Ok, I put the laptop back together and installed tpfancontrol, which yields somewhat weird results. When I set the fan speed to 0-14, it does nothing. Setting it to 15-64 makes it spin once whenever tpfancontrol cycles. 128 (bios setting) causes "couldn't set fan state" error. Otherwise tpfancontrol works well, it reports temperatures and fanspeeds correctly.
wtf?