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s: a way to start fan by hand
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Jun 8, 2004, 07:39 AM
 
hi!

does any1 know a way to start the fan when I want? or maybe a tool to lower the kickin temp.

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Jun 8, 2004, 12:12 PM
 
I don't know of any way to do that. There is no userland utility to do that, and the kernel extensions that control the fans on newer Macs are closed source so you'd be hard pressed to write one yourself.
     
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Jun 8, 2004, 01:56 PM
 
Take off the heat sink?
     
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Jun 11, 2004, 10:40 AM
 
Originally posted by Mithras:
Take off the heat sink?
Or maybe join Team MacNN and crunch some protein units 24/7. My fan's always on.
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