Hi folks, my wife has a compaq presario f500 Laptop, 32-bit win 7, Could some one walk me through how to change the fan speed they have a problem with over heating, One of the suggestions is to raise the speed to high on all the time, I am not interested in conserving the battery as it is plugged in with an ac adapter 99% of the time, thanks
Solved Cooling motor speed on laptop
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With laptops, it's very hit and miss to have the abiity to change fan settings.
I'd suggest you look into how to clean out the cooling fan and filter. Youtube has great how to videos.
I hate linking like this, but here is your laptops service manual
http://tim.id.au/laptops/hp/hp g6000 compaq presario f500.pdf
It's really worth looking into seeing if you are up to pulling it apart to clean it.
An alternative way is to blow aire into the exhaust as you use a vaccum to suck air from the in port.
Here;'s a good video
How to fix an overheating laptop : Clean your fans and heatsync with this procedure - YouTube
I'd suggest you look into how to clean out the cooling fan and filter. Youtube has great how to videos.
I hate linking like this, but here is your laptops service manual
http://tim.id.au/laptops/hp/hp g6000 compaq presario f500.pdf
It's really worth looking into seeing if you are up to pulling it apart to clean it.
An alternative way is to blow aire into the exhaust as you use a vaccum to suck air from the in port.
Here;'s a good video
How to fix an overheating laptop : Clean your fans and heatsync with this procedure - YouTube
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My experience with laptops is the fans die young. Most are a pita to change so I install new oem fans, not worth cleaning and hoping to get a few more years out of it. You can try blowing out the cooling area with a can of compressed air, it may help. It's a very good practice to blow out laptops every week or so, stops any accumulation that if it builds up is very hard to blow out.
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Thanks for the reply's, I have taken the pc completely apart and cleaned out the cooling fan, But some of the suggestions on line was to change the speed of the cooling fan for added assurance, I have been in the bios but I could not see an option to change the speed, Thanks Patonb for the link you gave, for the manual for f500 Presario, I put that in my favorites, also on line I found a nice freeware program which monitors more closely the fan speed, I installed it and hopefully it will monitor more closely, thanks again.
SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer
SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer
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Speedfan is a very comprehensive program, and it may be possible to change your fan speed with it, hence why I said it's touch and go with laptops.
I usually use coretemp to keep my temps monitored.
I usually use coretemp to keep my temps monitored.
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
- Motherboard
- Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
- Memory
- 12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
- Graphics Card(s)
- gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual 22" // Headless
- Hard Drives
- OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
- PSU
- Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
- Case
- Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
- Cooling
- Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
- Other Info
- Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...