Forcing my laptop fan to run?

[TheGreatSatan]

Sometimes my laptop gets kind of hot and I'm sitting there hoping the fan is gonna kick on and it eventually does. Is there a way of forcing my laptop fan to run when I feel it necessary?

Maybe something in the BIOS?

[Diamon]

Open the laptop and rewire the fan through a switch that you mod into the side of the laptop. Definitely the coolest solution. There might be something in the bios but I doubt it. If you don't feel like slice and dicing your laptop I'd try Speedfan and see if that can control your unruly fan.

[diluzio91]

smc fancontrol is another solution

[TheGreatSatan]

I'm definitely not opening it while still under warranty


smc fancontrol is another solution

Aren't they only for Macs?

[billygoat333]

In my laptop's Win7 power consumption menu there was an option to keep the fan on all the time I believe. might be worth checking out. :) or maybe it was in the bios' power consumption menu... I dont remember. lol.

[diluzio91]

Aren't they only for Macs?

As i look at the website, yes.. yes they are.. i thought they made a pc version too... :facepalm:

[TheGreatSatan]

In my laptop's Win7 power consumption menu there was an option to keep the fan on all the time I believe.

Here it is (http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/set-the-system-cooling-policy/)

[billygoat333]

ahh yess. thats what I did. ;)

[Konrad]

Did the Win7 control applet work? There is other software available, though no point in installing something that's already integrated.

[Luke122]

I was going to suggest Speedfan, but it looks like you've figured it out already.

[x88x]

Once your warranty is up, or if anyone just wants to do it for the heck of it, you put in a switch you would want to do it on the PWM feed. That way when you switch it off it just kicks into full speed, but switched on it would still behave normally.