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Dan
My P3 laptop had been working fine until recently when it started this
really disappointing habit of shutting down unceremoniously--no blue
screen, no dialog, nothing. Certainly, the problem was related to
processor overheating. Easy to figure this out because on cool weather
or in AC room the problem was not so frequent. I surfed the web up and
down for solution, and learned that the BIOS had temperature for
processor cooling fan to start running set too high. Indeed the fan
was not spinning at all.
I entered bios to change the value, but there is no place I could
change the value.
I then got a free handy utility i could install (Dell Latitude Fan
Control by Christian Diefer) which could be set what temperature the
fan would start to spin, or even to spin all the time. It also
displayed processor temperature on the system tray.
It seemed to solve my problem, but unfortunately it is not supported
by older OSs as Win 98 (my latitude is a dual-boot, i do have some
apps i run on win98 that can't run on xp).
That brings me here, to learn if there is anyone who could tell me how
to go about and set the bios temperature to something low, like 30. I
had even downloaded the bios upgrade, but when I attempted to install
it i was told that my bios is the latest version, didn't require
upgrade. Pls assist.
really disappointing habit of shutting down unceremoniously--no blue
screen, no dialog, nothing. Certainly, the problem was related to
processor overheating. Easy to figure this out because on cool weather
or in AC room the problem was not so frequent. I surfed the web up and
down for solution, and learned that the BIOS had temperature for
processor cooling fan to start running set too high. Indeed the fan
was not spinning at all.
I entered bios to change the value, but there is no place I could
change the value.
I then got a free handy utility i could install (Dell Latitude Fan
Control by Christian Diefer) which could be set what temperature the
fan would start to spin, or even to spin all the time. It also
displayed processor temperature on the system tray.
It seemed to solve my problem, but unfortunately it is not supported
by older OSs as Win 98 (my latitude is a dual-boot, i do have some
apps i run on win98 that can't run on xp).
That brings me here, to learn if there is anyone who could tell me how
to go about and set the bios temperature to something low, like 30. I
had even downloaded the bios upgrade, but when I attempted to install
it i was told that my bios is the latest version, didn't require
upgrade. Pls assist.