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SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.

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Buying A Computer "Case" Fan... Does It Always Run At 100% Unless Told Otherwise?

What happens if I do not plug it into the motherboard and it does not have a switch? I have seen fans before with an "off/low/high" switch that allows you to manually set their speed. I have seen fans that plug into the motherboard and are…
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Why can't I control the speed of my CPU fan?

I bought a new computer with an ASRock H61M motherboard and XILENCE ICEBREAKER 64 Pro PWM CPU FAN. The problem is that I can't control the speed of the FAN. I tried settings in the BIOS and with SpeedFan as well as with ASRock extreme tuner. After…
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Utility to manipulate speed of fan in Windows 7

I know Speedfan does monitor the CPU temperature, but it doesn't have the option to increase the speed manually. I used to have a programme in MAC OS which does that, but is there one for windows 7?
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Interpreting sensor names

Here is the output from the sensors command on my Late 2012 MacMini 6,2 running Linux. I am unable to find out what each code means. What parameter do each of these code represent? I would like to set configuration parameters in a utility caled…
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SpeedFan not detecting fans

SpeedFan 4.52 is not detecting any of my system fans. Am I doing something wrong? Is my motherboard not supported? Motherboard: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170-Gaming-K3-rev-10#ov Fans: https://www.bequiet.com/en/casefans/616 The fans…
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What does SpeedFan's 'Automatic fan speed' option do?

What does Speedfan's Automatic fan speed option do? I don't notice any immediately difference when it's checked or unchecked. Does unchecking it mean I can manually change the speed of my fan?
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Windows Task Scheduler, run task if task isn't running?

How do I ensure a task is running all the time? I use speedfan to control my fans and on occasion it crashes or it needs to be restarted. If I manually quit speedfan because it isn't working correctly it doesn't reopen automatically. How can I use…
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How can I see the evolution of the CPU temperatures in the SpeedFan log file?

I run SpeedFan in Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) and found some log files in C:\Program Files\SpeedFan named SFLog20110717-0001.csv through SFLog20110717-0009.csv. I opened them, hoping to see a log of temperatures, but all I found was a single…
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SpeedFan cannot find my fan

My laptop (SONY VAIO VGN-CR390) is getting hot recently and the fan doesn't seem to work at high speed. I installed SpeedFan and it reads my CPU temperature @60C+ consistently. However, it cannot find my fan, the FANS list is empty, so there's no…
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Make old icon disappear from system tray automatically after SpeedFan restarts

@echo off taskkill /F /T /IM speedfan.exe start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\SpeedFan\speedfan.exe" cls exit I use the above commands in a .bat file to restart SpeedFan automatically each time after the computer wakes up from the sleep mode.…
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Speedfan crashing desktop

I have recently installed a Gigabyte P43-ES3G motherboard on my computer with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and whenever I try to run Speedfan my computer shuts down. Has anyone else experienced similar issues with speedfan or know what could cause this? I am…
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Are these acceptable temperatures for my laptop?

I just installed SpeedFan 4.0 since my laptop's fan seems to be continually running at a high speed. It reports these numbers: GPU: 74C Temp1 (ACPI): 75C Temp2 (ACPI): 95C Core 0: 89C Core 1: 89C These seem awfully high to me, should I be…
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Laptop Windows 10 noisy fan constantly running

I have been having an issue with my Laptop fan constantly running @ high speed creating an unbearable noise that is making it hard to work. My processor is almost at idle when this happens only between 1-5% when viewed on Task Manager. It will be…
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game

so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that my temperatures are quite high. I opened up my…
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Arch Linux: Cannot control fan speed

I just installed arch linux on my laptop and I noticed that my fans are full speed all the time so I tried to fix that. I followed the wiki guide here but I am stuck because everytime I run sensors I get this output: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter:…
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