19.4.09

S10 Bios 59

I had upgraded the BIOS on Cupcake to version 59 (available from the
Lenovo forums) to alleviate the off and on fan problem. If you've got
an S10, you know it's annoying and distracti-WHIRRRRRRR

I'll be rolling back though, probably to 58. The CPU temp idles at
55C. It ratchets up to 60 when web surfing.

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3 comments:

Unknown said...

60C is bad? When i overclock its in the 60s. ;p

If it aint rocking high 80s. I don't sweat it. hehe.

The ASUS Eee 1000H, damn i need a nickname too.... Ronin. (My MBP is Kensei). Also has a whir when fan goes over 30% its kinda annoying only when there is no ambient noise in the room.

Kris The Grumpy said...

The problem with the S10 is that the fan noise was nothing....FULL BORE...nothing.....FULL BORE... so it was annoying, more than a fan that runs all the time. And it did it when the computer wasn't doing anything too! If 60 degrees is no big deal (I haven't researched opertaing temps for the Atoms) I'll ignore the red bar in the sensors applet. I think the fan is throttled way down in 59.
Yeah Ronin's a good name for a netbook :D

Kris The Grumpy said...

Oh yeah, Hirens Boot CD is the way I got the bios updated despite Cupcake being a Linux box. It's Windows XP on a CD.