After buying an asus K70IO laptop(second hand) I stumbled uppon a problem, the laptop overheats. I cleaned it and re-applied artic silver 5 thermalpaste and still overheats(only the procesors, the gpu is fine). Now can someone mod the bios of this machine and edit the thermalpolicy of it? like when it is in idle fan speed should be at 50% and under load or exceeds 67 degrees celsius go to full speed. Or if someone knows a fan control program that will let me choose the manual fan speed it will be ok. Thanks in advance!
I have written a fan control for FSC Xa 3530 in Linux and Windows. You can google it. For Acer there is also script acer_ec.pl. When you are lucky you can control the ec register and set the fan register to manual mode and override the speed settings. Then you can write your fan control like me?!
Thanks allot for your time spent, now to be clear- this laptop came with windows vista, i formated it and installed windows 7 64 bit official keys and everything . Now is it windows 7 to blame for the overheating? which file should i flash first?(preferably i would like to keep windows 7 on this laptop)
It's very risky to flash. Make sure you have a recovery disk. Did you looked in Power Management from Windows? Normally it's make cpu runs at full speed but you can switch to an other power management. It's not always the dsdt or bios etc.
ive tryed the windows power management, what it does cpu throttling...the problem is that i know that the fan can go at higher rpm while modifiyng the 00x90 bytes. asus nb probe always shows the fan at low and quiet setting, even when i edit the embedded controller and max out the fan
also I used amibcp to edit my bios in showing all the options but when i enter fan control tab it shows nothing...
flashed with the non slic, bios works but windows dosent, gives a blue screen saying that acpi function not suported or something( it dissapers rapidly) trying now to boot into linux and copy an oficial bios file to the hardrive and relash from bios....God help me...!
i think u have to reinstall windows due to ACPI now being controlled by dsdt "Windows 2009" (i seen this msg before)
worth a shot, and if it fails then i wil try to boot linux and see if it works, and afterwards try to flash to the original bios from hardrive, hope it wont fail on me.
linux will work. windows should work. if not flash original and we rework patched bios.. but im sure its cause it was changed from non acpi to acpi.
so did you tried the acer_ec.pl script? my script is using the same register in the embedded controller. i can recommend read and write everywhere tool. also when program in pc it's all in little endian. you can find linux kenel module and a windows driver from me. look for fsc xa 3530 fan control.
Sitrep: linux is working, burning a windows 7 disc now, and now that acpi is controling the fan do i need to install a different driver or program, like smartfan or it will just work perfectly?
tryed to format to windows, gives bluescreen that the system is not fully acpi compliant....i am now returning to linux, formating c drive and put the original bios file, hope it works