laptop fan

hey guys, i have an older dell notebook that should be running WIN98 but i am running xp home. anyway i am yet to see or hear the fan kick on, even when the laptop clearly is very warm and needs to fan to kick on. anybody heard of this yet? i know ya'll want to say replace, well i have no money and this notebook was a gift so.. all help with this would be appreciated. thanks guys.

eric

 

i've used this program before on my laptop to disable powernow on the amd chip (don't use it anymore cuz i rarely use it plugged in now). i remember finding a setting in there that kicked both fans on full blast full time. if you can figure it out, it should work for you.

http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/

 

Have 20 bucks,,,,thats not too much,,buy a 20in window box fan and sit your laptop on it LOLOL,,,you will cool that thing down in a hurry,,,,and the room will have nice air flow,,just don't dry out your eyes while trying to type hehehe,, !!!!!!!,,..of course wont be convinient in starbucks though,,,!!! ,,,and this is a real concept I have here for anyone PUSHING A P4 laptop at 100% ,or overclocking a tower,,,,,running a folding or seti project 24/7

I actually DO IT ,,,which is probably funnier the the IDEA,,,at night I place the fan on its side and park my notebook on it,,trying to get a few more years out of a processor that is maxed out all the time,,this is the silly answer,,,Glenn

 

I have Latitude CPT 500's that run 2K (originally 98) that are the same way. The fan almost never comes on.

I called Dell support for the hell of it, and they told me that the fan won't come on until the thermostat read like 200*. That harly seems right to me.

In either case, I downloaded from Dell, the 32-bit diagnostic program. It consists of 5 floppys and contained within is a little test for the fan. It tests at like 3 different rpms.



Steve