Googled cause: video card(ATI) driver version seems to prioritize GPU temperature over CPU temperature, causing cpu overheat before gpu signals fan to spin.
Solution attempts:
- Clean fan and heatsink with brush and blower.
- Uninstall ATI driver, unsuccessful... BSOD before reaching uninstall.
- Backup data, prepare for reformat and reinstall of Windows XP Media Center 2005
- Download Win XP MC2005 (laptop has license key anyway)
- Laptop refuses to boot using the downloaded disk, but it works on another laptop.
- Remove HDD and connect to usb. Make sure there are multiple partitions, one for the OS and another a temporary drive(FAT32). Attempt diskless install via: "Z:\I386\winnt32.exe /syspart:K: /tempdrive:K: /makelocalsource /noreboot" where z is the dvd drive is and K the fat32 partition. (note: DO NOT use sp3 installer, will give 'iaStor.sys' not found errors)
- Place back HDD in laptop. Boot and install winxpmc2005
- After XP, install ATI video driver and ATI Catalyst.
- Installation is stable although fan still doesn't spin while in XP. still investigating.
2 comments:
You can
1. Grease the fan
2. Change the fan (Go Deeco....)
To check if the fan is really busted
1. Get Ubuntu.
2. Boot Using ubuntu.
3. If the fan still doesn't spin, it's the hardware. Else, it's the driver.
yo clyde. I fixed it some time ago and it might be on its way to the US again.
The fan spins on POST and in Knoppix/dos/installation.
I bombarded it with stable ATI-AMD drivers and it kinda fixed itself :P
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