[BC] Need an address

[Cowboy]

On Friday 23 December 2005 09:01 pm, JYRussell at academicplanet.com wrote:
>Need an address to post a computer problem... unless you want to take a stab 
>at it on this forum...
>
>the problem...
>  Older laptop (Compaq Armada) with winXP pro on it.
>Cooling fan runs during cmos/bios stuff, and during the first part of the XP 
>bootup... once the OS hits the last 'welcome' screen though... the fan shuts 
>off and stays off no matter how warm the thing runs.  I'm guessing either 
>the temp sensor doesn't work, or XP is unsure about looking for one... XP 
>also happens to show three fans, and there's only one... yup, I've already 
>tried turning them off/on one at a time in device mgr. to no avail.  I'd 
>love to get the fan running right so my lap can tolerate the heat!
>Jason 

 The fan runs at power-up as part of the BIOS self-test.
 Since it runs, you know that the BIOS knows best, and it does work.
 XP, being a "plug-n-play" system, takes over and over rides
 BIOS in most ways.
 Of course, XP is all things to all people, and knows better that the specific
 perscription for YOUR case. One size fits all, and we ignore your specific
 perscription, else there'd be too many to keep track of.

 Try turning OFF the plug-n-play OS setting in BIOS, so that BIOS
 won't so easily surrender all functions to the OS.

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