Averatec 1020ed Fan Speed Controls

[Joseph Foley]

I have an averatec 1020ed that has a tendency to overheat without turning up the fan. About a year ago, I found instructions for a method of remapping the fn+f3 and fn+f4 keys to decrease and increase the fan's speed. I'm pretty sure I found this on the late unofficial averatec support forum, but I'm not certain.

Long story short, the laptop recently had to be burned down and reformatted, I lost my most recent image backup, and I forgot what it was I did to get those keys controlling the fan speeds. The other forum appears to be dead, but is there anyone here who still remembers how to do this?

[danieljdsn]

you need a file which made my Newhren he helped me do "fan control"..

let me see.. if i still have the file somewhere..

[HellDemon]

Yeah I'd be interested in that file too if you don't mind since I've heard tons of issues about the 1050 getting too hot; I'm planning on getting an Averatec 1050 alongside with a vaio that I'm ordering.

[benizi]

Hi guys.

I found the version newhren made for the Averatec 1020, and I made my own for the 1050.

To install either one, you should follow the directions on How to Fix Common ACPI Problems. The important bits, if you're not actually hacking things: First, you have to compile the DSDT using the Intel compiler

iasl -tc filename.asl

Then go through the section on patching/modifying your kernel.

There's the modified 1020 DSDT at acpi.sourceforge.net. (It's based off this original 1020 DSDT.)

And, I made a modified version for my 1050. (based off this original 1050 DSDT dump.) It's kinda dumb, since I just ported newhren's changes into the 1050. That means the fan-up and fan-down controls on Fn+F3 and Fn+F4 also activate 'switch LCD' and 'sleep', respectively. But, I tried for a while to get them to use other keys by changing the 'Method(_Qxx, 0, ...) to a different 'xx'. (F3 and F4 are apparently _Q0C and _Q0D.)

I'm also putting up a page about modifying the Averatec 1050's ACPI DSDT.

Later,
Ben

[mikeypizano]

Is it possible to do this on Windows XP?