Change fan speeds on Lenovo G560?

Hey there, I'm wondering, is it possible to manually change the fan speeds on this laptop? When I'm rendering a video in Sony Vegas it heats up my laptop and I'm just wondering is there a solution other than laptop cooling pads?

as i know, controlling the fan is not possible for this serie of lenovo.

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First, know that Im French so sorry for bad English I may use,
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First off, it would be useful to know what the sensors-detect script actually reports.
Okay. How fan control works on Linux: First, navigate to /sys/class/hwmon
Each of these folders, i.e. hwmon0, stands for a sensors monitor / fan controller on your mainboard that may control one or several fans. Inside hwmonN, there should be a subfolder called device, which contains several interfaces if your BIOS allows software-side fan control. You can read them with cat and write to them with echo.
Examples:
pwm1_enable shows if OS-level fan control is enabled (1) or disabled and in BIOS control (0). Changing fan speed won't work if this is disabled. (i.e. cat /sys/class/hwmon0/device/pwm1_enable reports 0 -> disabled; you could enable it with echo 1 > /sys/class/hwmon0/device/pwm1_enable).
pwm1 allows to change fan speed. The values range from 0 (fan off) to 255 (full speed, 12V).
fan1_input shows the current RPM if a fan is connected. You can only read from this interface. Its useful to check all of these in the each of the hwmon folders to find out if there is actually a fan connected to the fan controller (they often have more ports than mainboard manufacturers use).
There might be a fan1_div, this is somehow related to how the kernel reads the RPM, I don't know how it works.
temp1_input interfaces can appeare too, if some of the chips have temperature sensors located somewhere. I *think* lm_sensors places the core temperatures it reads from CPU (the coretemp-isa-000X thingies) in one of the hwmon-folders too.
There might be interfaces for different fans in the same hwmon folder, i.e. pwm2_enable, pwm2, fan2_input, etc., all interfaces with the same index belong to the same physical fan connector, and all in the same hwmonN are managed by the same IC on your mainboard.
Warning: These interfaces, if they work, control the fans directly without any kind of security measure. If you shut some essential fan down, it will stay off until you reboot your CPU shuts down.
(If you see something likein0_alarm, in0_input, in0_max, etc. it's a voltage monitoring chip.)
If one of those interfaces can do something, OS-level fan control does work, if none of those folders contain a working pwm interface, fan control seems to be unavailable.
Sometimes there is an option in the BIOS to enable it, and for some BIOSs software-side fan control only works if dynamic fan control is disabled in the BIOS and fan speed is set to a static value - or vice versa.
I don't know what you are using to control fan speed, there are many applications that use these interfaces, i.e. GNOME or KDE power managers, so I'm not sure what is happening:
IF: Windows 7 enables OS-level fan control and sets it the RPM to those you observed and you have nothing that provides fan control in Arch and so fan control stays at BIOS-level, which might also read out a different sensor / the same sensor differently or it might be more conservative in setting fan speeds altogether;
OR: You have something that provides fan control installed in Arch and it reads out a the wrong value supplied by lm_sensors and thus sets a higher fan speed.
Anyway, possible solutions I can think of:
Find out if you have some kind of fan control software and what it does. For example, I use the fancontrol daemon, I can't help you if you use something else.
The wiki mentions how to assign a fan speed to a certain temperature sensors. You might assign it to a different one. For example, there are no sensor chips on the mainboard of my EEE (no temp1 etc.) so I assigned the fan speed to the temperature reported by the BIOS via ACPI (those are in /sys/class/thermal, also no "device" subfolder on EEEs):
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You could also change the MINTEMP/MAXTEMP values to one higher than those you actually want to compensate for the effect of lm_sensors reporting temperatures that are too high.
It is currently not possible for a mortal user to change the coretemps lm_sensors reads, see this post, last paragraph.
There is a configuration file, /etc/sensors3.conf, you can change sensor names and adjust offsets here, but only for the monitoring chips and their sensors that are on the mainboard.
Last edited by Malstrond (2009-08-19 19:34:22)

Lenovo G560 overheating. Need tips on fan speed control

When I am watching movies on my G560 laptop, the area to the left of my touchpad is getting very hot and the laptop is shutting down at times.
When I bought my laptop I used to hear fan noise, but I have noticed recently that I do not hear the fan any more. I was wondering of there was a way to check the fan speed and manually alter it.
The warranty on my G560 is running out with in a month or so, a quick response would be appreciated.

the cpu greece tests over the years are the most bunch of snake oil i ever seen.
one review site did a test with 50 and used choclate and fingernail polish to show most are complete waste of money.
compaq builds junk.
lenovo dose not.
the real reason is the notebook makers dont even built the latops.
there like 3 companys that make 90% of the worlds notebooks and pc.
you never even heard of them either.
they make the sonys,acers and so on in a plant on a line with dozens of brands.
just like the way foxconn makes the apples these are huge companys that make the products per instruction of the notebook brand.
notebooks are not like desktops one bit because they are in a tiny space where heat puts a curse in the board.
when you release this you release that spot.
the part of contact for a cpu die is really tiny so it dont have to make the same contact point as cpu cooler.
cpu coolers of notebook are well designed unlike the desktop cooler they make very good contact.
discrete graphics is another story most of all on compaqs with they used a very bad design and had majior issues with.
trust me there no such issues with lenovos because they use a good company to make there notebooks and they also use a good design.
the fan noise issue well that was more of a watch out for sandy bridge issue as sandy bridge can be a very hot chip.
undervolting the chip makes a huge difference in heat as it comes with no performance loss.
it also dont change the way the cpu sits.
when the cpu was mated to the motherboard it perfict that day.
when you pull the cpu now it never fit the same exact way as it has been stressed over time by the tourqe and the heat.
pulling it will effect the fit.
most people dont have the skill to change the greece on a cpu because they will use to much and unlike a desktop cpu that has no open transistors on the surface the mobile cpu dose.
they will add too much and it will run and short out them.
look at a pic of a mobile cpu and then a desktop cpu.
a very different design.
what you telling people is a skill they dont have because they have no idea that a simple mistake will cost them hundreads of dollers.
notebook cpu run 200-300 dollers and some 500 bucks.
pulling the cpu heatsink will effect it natural fit because it under tenion.
i know this because i know metals well and i have 20 years of experence in this area.
i alos worked for a company long ago that made robots for the waffer cpu come from.
i think some people think they might know a quik fix because they built a pc before but notebooks are very different.
i do custom notebook setups for people up here in boston who are willing to spend more on my labour then most notebooks cost.
when i set up a pc it takes me 4-6 hours normally thats a standard win 7 time with all security and services adjusted complete.
people pay for my services because they get longer run times and they stomp anything even notebook makers that charge thousands for custom setups.
if i thought putting snake oil on a cpu would lower temps i would do it just for the lower fan noise and power use it would save.
i know the moment i release the heatsink i never recreate the same exact fit it had under the stress that time made and the point of contact metal to metal will allways be better then if you add silicon to it.
most people dont get that more then a pin head will be more then enough because more then that will cause a heat barrier and lower that.
there whole point to thermal paste is to fill graps in the metal that are from the lapping process.
it not to help cool it like some think.
no thermal paste will ever work better then a pure magnetic grip of metal to metal.
infact if you machine two blocks perfict they stick to each other as if they were magnets.
tourqe them and add heat and they never do that again.
that why latops heatsinks i feel are much more different them desktops one and what most people dont grasp.
dont belive me call your high school science teacher and he explaine why to you.

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External VGA does not present any output either. HDD doesn't spin and nor does the light turn on. Removed and reseated memory modules as well as HDD. No change.
Purchased a replacement LCD screen as the current one was cracked the when laptop hit the floor! Therefore I'm thinking something's completely screwed the laptop up or is it a case of a loose connection.
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Hope this helps.
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Hello i have lenovo G560 after i turn it on a few seconds fan working then definitiveli stops and cpu go overheating and notebook go stutdown. I try to change CPU fan but issue is there still. Sorry for my poor english. Can anybody tell my what i want to do?

hi deadbiker,
Overheating problems are commonly caused by evaporated or dried out thermal paste or dirty cooling fan. Since you replaced the fan, I recommend you remove the heatsink and re-apply a thermal compound on the CPU and GPU (if applicable). See page 41 on the Hardware Maintenance Manual on how to remove the heatsink.
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Yes, notebook hangs for 1-3 seconds. I notice this because the mouse pointer does not move in this time. And if I hear music, only monotonous sound comes out. If the processor is busy, something like that does not happen. Only if he is idle. It is astonishing that notebook hangs if the fan goes on. I cannot ascertain, with the turning on which fan this passes.
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If you are having serious overheating problems I would use a laptop cooling pad with fan/fans. Also,a less radical approach to the mod posted above is drilling some air holes in the bottom of case where the GPU is located. Adding copper shims shown HERE or HERE on his 'About ME' also keeps temps down.
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Looking through my old posts to refresh my memory, my face is red as *I AM* mistaken:O
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