I have a toshiba tecra 8000 with windows xp running on it.

The cooling fan comes on when it boots up, then when it goes into XP it turns off until it gets to a certain temperature and turns on, by that time it's very very hot. I need to find a way to change this so it's not as hot when it kicks in or it's running all of the time.

I have checked in the BIOS, and have it set up in there, I'm guessing it's something to do with XP.

 

Ultimately i'd phone toshiba up on it!

But I wouldn't think XP as an operating system would have settings for when various cooling fans turn on/off. I would have thought, like you said, something int he BIOS.

 

Sorry man but it's not in XP. In fact I doubt you will be able to find a way to change that setting at all. Most laptops have that feature and it's basically hard coded in to a temp sensor. Not really any way of changing it.

(I know for a fact that Dell and IBM both have the same type of thing)

 

My room has a HP laptop and it does the same thing. It's all built into the pc and as far as I know, it cannot be changed.

 

unless you are brave enough to take it apart... and hard wire it

 

I dont know if it is the same for toshiba's but my dell has a benchtest mode where you can test and change all aspects of the laptop. It lets you change the different RPM settings at certain temps. I just stumbled upon it when i was messing around.

 

Sounds like ur gonna need a new fan. I know my problem wasn't in a laptop but my system itself was running to hot and it fried the Motherboard. So IF you can replace the fan in a laptop that's my two cents. Probably wrong [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] but who knowz. Call Toshiba ppl get paid to give those answers.

 

my guess is its nothing more than a power saving feature...get a motherboard monitor and see how hot its really getting...if it is getting to hot then do as cavity suggested and hard wire it in...or drill some cooling holes [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

chris, just remember I have an older Toshiba laptop I need to fix, when it was working it would to the same thing as yours.

My uncle is a computer geek and he said i shouldn't worry, its programmed to do that? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

 

I use a program called Speedfan to adjust my fans... If your motherboard has a controller this program can talk with you can adjust and monitor it on your own...

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php