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Thread ID: 106129 2009-12-27 22:13:00 What's "that thing" that auto-adjusts the fan speed according to heat output? Renmoo (66) Press F1
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843753 2009-12-27 22:13:00 *A piece of software / drivers which enables the fan speed to be increased if the heat output increases? Renmoo (66)
843754 2009-12-27 22:18:00 On Asus mobos it's called Q-fan (is built-in), and needs to be enabled in Bios to work.
I dont know about others, have only used Asus :), would be similar I would think.
feersumendjinn (64)
843755 2009-12-27 22:20:00 Or cool n Quiet, if its AMD. If the CPU supports speedstep, (and its enabled in the BIOS), this will also slow the CPU's speed down when idle Speedy Gonzales (78)
843756 2009-12-27 22:23:00 Mine is an ASUS Z92T laptop, running with Windows 7. Renmoo (66)
843757 2009-12-27 22:27:00 The problem that I am experiencing now:

Attached file: hot.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (51 KB)

As you can see, I don't think the fan is running fast enough to dissipate the heat.
Renmoo (66)
843758 2009-12-27 22:31:00 The latest version of the BIOS fixes the fan

BIOS 708

Fix that the fan will slow down after 5 or 10 minutes which will easily cause HW overheating. What BIOS is on it? I would update the BIOS.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
843759 2009-12-27 22:44:00 How do I update the BIOS? I have downloaded .rom file. Renmoo (66)
843760 2009-12-27 22:48:00 Does it have an option to boot from flash drives in the BIOS?? Altho I cant see any mention of afudos (the program you flash it with), on the ASUS site. So I dont think you can do that

You may have to use ASUS liveupdate, install it then load the extracted rom file into it. DON'T let it search for the BIOS update, then update it, it may freeze, then it'll be dead. And dont use wireless (if the laptop has it), use wired to update it just in case
Speedy Gonzales (78)
843761 2009-12-27 23:01:00 Okay, I've updated the BIOS. Renmoo (66)
843762 2009-12-27 23:08:00 And are the temps better?? Did you set the defaults, then reconfigure the settings? Speedy Gonzales (78)
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