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Howto Silence Sony Vaio laptop fan Using Fansilencer

Posted by admin on September 4th, 2007 Email This Post Email This Post

Many people complain that Sony Vaio laptops are loud because of the fan. Fan is running almost all the time, which can be very annoying. This program works under Linux and requires SonyPI driver to work. This driver is preinstalled at least in Ubuntu distribution.

This program allows you to determine the maximum temperature. When temperature reaches this definied maximum the fan starts to run. It runs until the temperature is drop down to the level that user wants.

Program simply prevents fan from running until the predefined temperature limit has been exceeded. After this fan runs until the ‘low limit’ has been reached. It is a very simple program indeed and shouldn’t require any extra explonations. Below is a concole output of the Fansilencer.

Sony Vaio - Fan silencer v0.1
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Usage: fansilencer [MAX TEMPERATURE] [ACTIVE TEMPERATURE]

Fan activates when temperature reaches given MAX TEMPERATURE and runs until temperature is dropped down to ACTIVE TEMPERATURE.

WARNING! DO NOT USE TOO HIGH MAX TEMPERATURE. THIS MIGHT DAMAGE YOUR SYSTEM OR BREAK IT COMPLETELY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Note : As you can see, stopping the fan from working can be dangrous and harm your system!

You can download this program from here

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2 Responses to “Howto Silence Sony Vaio laptop fan Using Fansilencer”

  1. paolo Says:

    hello
    i have noticed that in each cycle of the while(true) the program sleep itself for 50000 microseconds and during this time the control of the fan return back to the ACPI module that try to increase the fan speed causing voltage fluctuation on the fan that can be damage it.

  2. maya Says:

    i have problem with my fan my computer no 28420650 5005402 .

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