Fans, Heat etc.

[nikblack]

Hi. I have been running boot camp since it first came out. When I upgraded from XP to Vista and Boot Camp 1.2, I was not able to reboot back into OS X, so I decided to just use the laptop as a Vista machine and killed the OS X partition and used it as additional storage for the Vista partition. Since then, the laptop reboots at least once every time I use it. Previously I was running smbFanControl on OS X, so I would set the fans to a higher speed then boot into Vista. Now it seems that Vista is not capable of controlling the fans at all.

 

My temp runs from 82-95, depending on what is running on the mach (core temp) - which is just a crazy temperature. Today I installed the latest BC 1.4b drivers hoping that they had fixed the fan issue, but they hadn't. I re-installed Input Remapper again, and again the fan monitor tells me that the fan RPM is zero:

 

Fan 0 | Speed: 0.0 Target: 6000.0 Min: 6000.0 Max: 6000.0 Safe: 1200.0 Forced: 0

Fan 1 | Speed: 0.0 Target: 6000.0 Min: 6000.0 Max: 6000.0 Safe: 1200.0 Forced: 0

 

Anybody have any idea why my fans wouldn't be spinning *at all*. I have read tons on overheating problems with Windows on BC, but not seen much about fans not running at all.. Is there a way I could force the fans? I tried everything I could in Input Remapper, and ended up having to underclock the CPU and GPU (again) just to keep the laptop cooler and battery life up.

 

I have no idea how I completely killed the fans or what is going on, would really appreciate some help so that I can re-clock my CPU/GPU back to being a full MBP, not a budget crappy laptop.

 

ps. does Input Remapper use the same ACPI messages to control the fan as what smbFanControl does? eg. is there any point to booting into OS X and trying smbFanControl? Also, are there any plans to extend Input Remapper (which probably needs a new name - considering it does a lot more) for over/underclocking and adjusting voltages? A very cool feature would be to set a threshhold for max temp (eg. 70C) and then autoamtically set the clock, voltage etc. to keep it to that temprature or power consumption level

 

thanks in advanced

[BouvetIsland]

My fans stopped running as well, I believe on 1.3 boot camp. Or rather the right one would spin at around 2000, the other at 0 no matter, also in OSX!

 

Resetting the smc fixed the situation.

 

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319

 

I am in honesty not fully aware if the situation arrived before or after I reinstalled 1.4 -- I seemed to have no luck assigning shortcuts.

 

Now for the reasons there are a host of suspects ... :

 

* vmware fusion

* logitech utility

* Rightmark CPU clock utility

* apple (although I haven't made any updates, it has been working for at least three months.)

 

I just recommended input remapper be included in Vmware fusion over at their forums -- lets hope it works out.

 

Regards,

 

Amundsen