WIN2K and internal fan....

This is a discussion about WIN2K and internal fan.... in the Windows Hardware category; I was wondering. . . When I boot up to win2k 2195, my fan that cools my processor and powerbox suddenly stops. It will occasionally start back up ever so often for about 1-2 minutes and then goes back off again.

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I was wondering... When I boot up to win2k 2195, my fan that cools my processor and powerbox suddenly stops. It will occasionally start back up ever so often for about 1-2 minutes and then goes back off again. Is this normal? I dont want my computer to overheat.
 
Thankz for your time.

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Seems to be just part of the ACPI feature.
 
The same happens in modern laptops. E.G. my Gateway Solo laptop's fan will come on when I run RC5 on it, while it usually stays off if RC5 isn't run.
 
I don't know how you could keep the fan on, other than making the processor run hot by playing a game or running RC5, CSC, e.t.c.
 
Brendan

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RC5?...what exactly is rc5?.......if your referring to windows 2000 there is no such thing. Theres rc3 2183 then 2195 and 2195.1 and 2195.3
 
I personally have 2195.3

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if you can go into your bios settings at startup, there is a feature which controls the fan. not too many options, but thats how it is on my Abit BX-R rev2.01 so dont know what mobo your running but playing around with some settings in there might help as well as the ACPI settings in win2k.
 
chameleon kyoshiro

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Guess not everyone has heard of Distributed.net's RC5 contest after it's 2 years of running.
 
start at www.distributed.net . I'm on the SysOpt team - www.sysopt.com/rc5team.html - those pages explain it better.
 
Also, and addition - the dnet RC5 client uses 100% of the free CPU cycles, so that is why I was referring to it as it heats up processors.
 
Brendan