[Thinkpad] Re: [Thinkpad] 600E: fan doesn´t go off

Suggestions:

Make sure that you have the Power Management and Battery MaxiMiser updates
that were released less than a week ago.
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-44226

Second (and I know this is a weird idea!), you might try the "fix" listed
here for certain TPs, including your model, whose fans *don't* work in
Windows 2000. What makes me think it is worth a try is the fact that it
involves merely changing a single setting (Control Panel-Power Options-Power
Schemes) to one of two values -- but the article doesn't specify a
particular single one that should work. It does, however, mention that
changing those values changes the fan timing.
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MCKLN

There's also a note that Microsoft was supposed to fix the fan timing
problem in SP2; I wonder if your problem is a result of over-zealous,
unselective "fixing"...

Deanna
dberman@4dv.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Wiechers" <lists@borderlessworld.de>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 14:22 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] 600E: fan doesn´t go off

> I have a Thinkpad 600E (2645-550), Pentium II 300 Mhz, with Windows 2000
> (ServicePack 4) installed, 160MB RAM and BIOS 1.15 (IHET47WW) and have
> installed all the most recent device drivers I could get hold of.
>
> The problem is:
> About 15 minutes after startup the CPU cooling fan starts running and then
> never stops, no matter what I do (i.e. which programmes I run, etc.). Even
> if the air emitted from the machine is relatively cold, it doesn´t stop.
>
> The fan is almost quiet during the process of hibernation and runs only a
> short time at the beginning of the startup process, then goes quiet for
the
> rest of the start-up and only starts after 15 mins into working with the
> machine.
>
> Another odd thing:
> suspend-to-ram (Fn+F4)and suspend-to-disk (Fn+F12) do not work on this
> machine. when I press Fn+F4, the system hibernates (suspend-to-disk). When
> I press Fn+F12, nothing happens.
>
> What should I do? (the most annyoing thing is the fan, though.)
>
> Thomas
>
>
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