Fan Controller Thinkpad

Solution to the cooling fan noise annoyances thinkpad t4x t40t41t42t43 notebook series.

Fanduel market cap. Effectively the fans follow a temperature that was actual a long time ago. Thinkpad fan controller tpfancontrol 1. Many other options can be changed in the config file as well.

This program can be downloaded at ibmpads. A working debug build is included in fancontroldebug but it will need to be run each boot or added to run at startup. Allows the user to control fan activity based on the system temperature.

Win xp visual c project controls the fan via port io to the embedded controller. Source and binaries are available through the tp4xfancontrol project on sourceforge. Thinkpad fan controller is an open source utility designed to help users of notebooks from the thinkpad t4x t40t41t42t43 series which lack appropriate fan control mechanisms.

Allows the user to control fan activity based on the system temperature. This fan controller program monitors voltages temperatures and fan speeds in the system with the hardware monitors chip. Secstartdelay just after program or service startup if tpfancontrol is started within a period of 120 sec.

Solution to the cooling fan noise annoyances thinkpad t4x t40t41t42t43 notebook series. There is a bug in either bios or lenovo windows drivers which results in a very long delay between a temperature event and the fan speedup or slowdown. To prevent communication errors between tpfancontrol and embedded controller and systray icons missing tpfancontrol will sleep 60 sec.

Ibmpads ibmecw fan control program can also be used but it is more flexible in terms of compatibility. Secwinuptime after your thinkpad has been powered on because at boot time there is a lot of. The default fan profile that is included is a silent one with the fans only coming on at 60c.

As you probably know lenovo completely screwed up fan controlling code on lenovo thinkpad p53. This can be changed by editing tpfancontrolini in the fancontroldebug.