temp & fan control

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anyone having any temp/fan control issues?

The onlytemp I can monitor is hard drive, currently at 40 but I've been rebooting a lot so i'm not sure if leopard fan control is working

[rolajos]

For me with the msiwind version, it does not work. when installed kalyway it did work, but that distro had too many problems for me. So i just reboot when it gets too hot so the fan kicks in from bios.

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I'm using aitkos 4 and it's really hard to tell if it's working or not, i'm not sure what temp the fan should be kicking in at.

what temp should these atoms run? I've seen reports of some people's running really hot, my desktop dual core atom has no fan on the cpu at all, but the chipset does, I just resumed mine from sleep, so it's ice cold, but the fan is running. I can tell if the fan is on or off, but not how fast it's running.

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What i have found, if it heats up and is rebooted the fan is "enabled" and will always run at whatever speed it is on when leopard boots. So on a cold boot the fan is at 0 rpm and you'll overheat

I also found that AppleThermal.kext if installed will turn the fan off durring boot even if the system is overheating, it seems that it's a one way street to off with that kext, I suspect because it's looking for a sensor and not finding it.

I've tried a couple of programs that may control fan rpm, but they all know it's not a macbook and refuse to run, they probably would also not get the correct sensor data anyway

[ssnelson]

Has there been any success getting the fan to work with the MSIWindOSX86 distro?

I don't like having to choose between off and full-bore by restarting accordingly.

[joeblough]

are you running superhai's GenericCPUPowerManagement.kext and the corresponding app?

i cant tell if this is needed on the s10 to get speedstep working, but i havent seen my cpu temps go over 55C even at full load with this kext.

then again, as others have pointed out its the northbridge that gets hot on these things.

[ssnelson]

I'm not.

In the process of downloading it now to give it a try.

Thanks. I can handle not having annoying fan noise - I just didn't want to brick the machine by letting it overheat.

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I run his kext & app

but mine will still overheat if I dont reboot so the fan turns on

[joeblough]

by overheat, do you mean that the machine gets too hot to be on your lap? or does it actually do a thermal shutdown on its own?

some motherboards do the cpu voltage/clock rate scaling all by themselves (my badaxe seems to do this) so the s10 might be similar. in that case the Generic power control kext actually doesnt do anything.

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when it gets to 65 degrees I reboot, that'll turn the fan on and the temp will run 45-50 under load