hi folks i'm facing a problem with my DELL Inspiron 630m laptop , winXP pro . sometimes i feel my laptop is getting hot ! i have installed SpeedFan and the results was : three fans founded , fan2 & fan3 is working pretty but it seems like the problem is in fan1 . the value of fan2 , fan3 is 922 rpm . but the fan1 vlaue seems like dynamic cause it sometimes more than 2000 rpm and sometimes more than 3000 rpm , then it start taking the value of ZERO tham mean the fan1 stop working , after waiting for a while the laptop start heating untill the HDD temp equals 47 C and maybe reaching 50 C ! i know this is normal in some cases but the thing maede me afraid is that when it's getting hot i smell some bad smell from the air comming out from the laptop :S , and since i'm not familiar with SpeedFan here is it's result and pls tell me how i can fix this prob : fan1= 0 rpm fan2= 922 rpm fan3= 922 rpm HDD = 42 C cpu = 39 C temp1 = 34 C dimm = 37 C gpu = 37 C

Take the fan readings with a pinch of salt, If your fan has a fast rpm, then speedfan will struggle to give you an accurate reading. I have a fan reading in speedfan which is somewhere between 0-350,000 depending on the second I look at it. I also get incorrect voltages from speedfan. Your Temps seem fine, although your HDD is a little "warm" at 47'C, I don't think it is OTT. For more accurate readings, you should look at your hardware moniter in your bios, you might be surprised by the difference in readings it may show. "PARIAH" [British By Birth]

Hi, Never saw a Laptop with more than one fan. Could happen. SpeedFan is worthless until set up properly. See if the fan is running and clean. Jim

yeah, my Asus A2500H laptop is always 53C too. I bought this little cooling mat which has 2 big fans built in. It helps a little and you can keep the laptop actually on you lap. it looks like this: http://www.extensiontech.net/reviews/hj/jetart/np5000/img/6.JPG Intel P4 3.2E Ghz@ 3.8Ghz Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Kingston 2GB PC3200 Asus AX800 Pro w/ZM80D-HP WD Raptor 37 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300 GB Asus E616P1 Plextor PX-740A Reserator 1

hi folks , it's me again since i've no experince in assembleing a notebook i perfer to not to that but i think i find somthing usful for me and also for you it's just another kind of software but this time is only for DELL notebooks ( it may work on other notebook ) . the program give you a manual control of all of the fans and you can choose what level you want ( slow , high , off ) and i choose high so the notebook temp is normally now even the readings of SpeedFan changed ! i know it's not a good idea to handle this on my reponsablity but i have no other choices :( i think SpeedFan isn't that bad and here is the program which controls the fans http://www.diefer.de/software/ remember that it's designed to work on DELL notebooks , and i don't know about other kinds . thank you all guys !