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So even with temperature showing in a conky, I would second your warning that users should play with the fan settings cautiously.

Users have long complained about the Inspiron 600m cooking groins and wrists alike. Before your great fan control for the eee, I had physically disconnected my eee fan.īut my extensive, but amateur, experience with Dell laptops is that they burn hot and need that fan more than other brands. I'm somebody who works exclusively on battery, so I'm always willing to take chances with the power-eating fan.

I have three Dell laptops, in varying order of decrepitude, and your posted links tell me this fan control can even work with my ancient Inspiron 4000. The only exception are new Alienware models that might be added, but only in case it's deemed feasible.Tempestuous does it again. So please, if fan control on your machine is not supported by HWiNFO do not ask for support - it will not be answered. Also the huge amount of different fan control imlpementations (EC firmwares) and no universal methods possible make it even more difficult.Īlso please note that using the Embedded Controller interface (to monitor and control fans) can cause problems on some machines. In most cases it's very difficult to determine how to control fans on such machines and sometimes it might not be possible at all. The main reason for such limited fan control support is that almost all notebooks use proprietary methods (closed Embedded Controller firmware), that are kept secret by manufacturers. There are currently no plans to extend fan control support to other machines. Only very few specific HP models (8530w, 8740w) featuring SMSC EMC2103/EMC2113 controllers, some older ENVY 15/17) Some DELL machines might have problems using fan control DELL - many models supported, but fan control limited to 3 levels only.

Alienware - all current models should be supported, but there are limitations based on model and fan control mode (EC support disabled/enabled) Fan Control is not an official HWiNFO feature and there are currently only very few specific machines supported: