Comments on: Control that whiny Acer Aspire One fan with freeware

By: Tudor

Tudor — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:52:32 +0000

I’m having noise problems with my fan too. You could get used to it, but when you shut down the computer, and silence takes over, makes you think of how to get rid of that fan :)
To me, studying in a quiet public place is the issue. Everyone in the room knows when my computer is on. :)

By: ally

ally — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:02:25 +0000

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By: Le Tigre

Le Tigre — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:18:27 +0000

hey, this is not one of the “mine is working propperly” comments,

but I’d really like to know, if there are so many people having problems with their fan beeing to loud…

By: javier

javier — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:03:17 +0000

The fan control app works well as far as controlling the fan from running all the time, but in my case it leads to the following warning being written to the WinXP System Event Log dozens of times a minute:

Type: Warning
Source: ACPIEC
Category: None
Event ID: 3
Description: DeviceACPIEC: The embedded controller (EC) hardware returned data when none was requested. This may indicate that the BIOS is incorectly trying to access the EC without syncronizing with the OS. The data is being ignored.

It doesn’t seem to do any harm, but it must affect performance somewhat.