Re: Speed Fan as executable?

de ms 06/04/2006 10:53

hummingbird <OPRBMDQMZNLV@spammotel.com> wrote in
news:n7d682d3qfd89eq9rmcj3m0pre121oae86@4ax.com:

> On 4 Jun 2006 15:26:52 GMT 'ms'
> posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>
>>W2K
>>
>>My ASUS motherboard reads out OK in several of the test utilities
>>mentioned in:
>
>>I converted Speedfan to an executable.
>>
>>It opens, but I expected it to browse to my mb, display properties, as
>>the others do. It does nothing.
>>
>>For those of you that installed it- how is it supposed to work?
>
> SpeedFan is a program which runs and stays resident.
> I have it installed and it runs at startup.
>
> You can find SpeedFan v4.28 at:
> http://www.almico.com
>
> From the SpeedFan documentation:
> "What it does:
> SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds and
> temperatures in computers with a known monitoring chip. Its main
> feature is that it can control the speed of the fans according to the
> temperatures inside your pc,thus reducing noise and power consumption.
> SpeedFan can also access S.M.A.R.T. HD data and temperatures (if
> available).
>

Thanks, it probably has to be installed. In this case I have an
executable HD Health that basically does the same job. In W2K, like XP,
there are so many processes running, I try not to add to them.

Mike Sa