On 25/05/2010, at 10:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
unlikely.
your systems should regulate the fan on its own when needed,
even without an acpi enabled os.
if it is doin that, don't worry.
Usually if anything the fan will just run at full speed, which may be a
little noisy but may also make your cpu slightly quicker and laptop
last a little longer.
I've seen at least 1 laptop that was junked because the fan failed and
it
was uneconomic to replace it.
Even if it doesn't switch itself off the cpu of all non ancient systems
will pull back the current to stop any disaster.
acpis a mess of variants from the standards. It would be so much better
if this was done in hardware, the new nvidia cards, now run at full
speed without the nvidia driver/during boot and are rediculously noisy.
KeV
paulm
