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[janten]

What does the Fan-Speed Setting do? Will the fan be off if i set it to 0 (so my box would get burned)?

[Psilocybe]

and what is the highest or best setting for the speed?

[NghtShd]

You could set it to off, but I made the minumum 10 (which from my tests appears to be the default value).

[Psilocybe]

i've got mine at 50 right now, and it is louder and definately running faster

[da_frog]

but can this screw up your fan in any shape or form???

[sk8ermike6789]

hahah, yay it finnaly happened, some software to control the fan speed (MY IDEA!) lol im not taking credit or n e thign, bu i am happy now! clicky

lol but i hope someone can do this without reflashing the bios, maybe like adding a file to the
HD or somthing, i dont want to refash my bios

[BenJeremy]

Hmmm... if the "Fan Control" is documented somewhere (Not sure I want to dig through GentooX to find it), likely done through the PIC controller, I'll add it to Media X Menu (MXM)

[rob1309]

so it doesn't really harm it to run at full speed? cuz i can deal with the noise to have it cooler

[NightL1fe]

so would the 50 (max) setting be equal to a 12V mod.. as in the Fan RPM and voltage ?

[NghtShd]

QUOTE (sk8ermike6789 @ Sep 10 2003, 03:49 AM)

hahah, yay it finnaly happened, some software to control the fan speed (MY IDEA!) lol im not taking credit or n e thign, bu i am happy now! clicky lol but i hope someone can do this without reflashing the bios, maybe like adding a file to the HD or somthing, i dont want to refash my bios

Someone named "Evil Clowns" emailed me about it a couple of days ago. With oz_paulb's kernel expansion, adding it was pretty easy (once I got the kernel expansion and LBA48 code separated).

I've written a little companion app (found in the usual places) for testing fan speeds. You can use it to change the speed, but you'd have to run it each time the machine was started. Maybe the option will be added to dashboard apps.

[Rasenmaehen]

QUOTE (da_frog @ Sep 10 2003, 12:41 AM)

but can this screw up your fan in any shape or form???

Don't want to bust your bubble but my fan died after a day... I spent like 10 hours playing kotor then the next day the fan worked for 5mins then died.

It doesn't mean that it'll happen to every single fan, maybe I was unlucky (1.0 xbox made in november 2001), but it doesn't hurt to be careful. Maybe instead of setting it to 50, leave it at 35-40.

Anyway, just stole a stealth fan from an old ass compaq and it's working great now, so no worries here

[NghtShd]

http://home.alltel.n...oolDoc.html#fan

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (NghtShd @ Sep 10 2003, 03:12 AM)

QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Sep 10 2003, 04:23 AM) Hmmm... if the "Fan Control" is documented somewhere (Not sure I want to dig through GentooX to find it), likely done through the PIC controller, I'll add it to Media X Menu (MXM) // read it HalReadSMBusValue( 0x20, 0x10, 0, &speed ); // write it HalWriteSMBusValue( 0x20, 0x06, 0, speed ); // enable user specified speed HalWriteSMBusValue( 0x20, 0x05, 0, 1 );

Thanks... ShallaX got back to me as well.

It will be in the next Bug Fix Release...

[NightL1fe]

QUOTE (NghtShd @ Sep 10 2003, 10:30 AM)

http://home.alltel.n...oolDoc.html#fan

thanks Nghtshde, i think i checked that page too early yesterday and it probably was not updated yet.. awsome work

[lookformeb]

i want to know the same exact thing as above!!