Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 2009 20:24:02 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Acer Aspire One Fan Contro |
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:10:09PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > > Yep, I don't disagree. But I strongly suspect that if you force the > > fan off and overheat the machine, it will shut down in hardware before > > doing any damage. > > s/strongly suspect/definitely know/ ;-) > > Reason being that my machine suddenly dropped dead (2 or 3 times maybe), > and when I then reactivated it, the fan made a nice tick....tick....tick noise > as if it tried to start but something blocked it a bit too much. > Shook and rocked the box a bit (not too difficult with a netbook after all ;), > then it worked again and ever since. > Probably a slightly wonky fan, but I'm not sure whether I should care > all that much at the moment.
:).
> I _am_ using the shell script currently, but within pretty safe limits > (I'd hope that I'm not insane after all), thus I don't think this negatively > affected fan health or machine.
What are your settings now?
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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