Fan does not work after ugrading to XP

[Guest]

I have a IBM T23 laptop. Orginally had 2000 o/s. I installed XP Pro and
have had a few difficulties. Mainly now the cooling fan never turns on and
the laptop gets extremely hot. I know this is not good so I will shut it
down until it cools, but I know the fan is fan. I can't seem to locate any
settings in the control panel or BIOS settings.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

XP has nothing to do with the fan operation.If in doubt about it,replace it.
While installing xp the hardware probably caused it to warm-up more than
usual,causeing an ill fan to quit.

 

[Robin]

Just coincidence and two are unrelated?

 

[Guest]

FYI

After further research and seeing many people that have upgraded their
notebooks to a different o/s, there seems to be a common thread.

On a whim, I went to IBM's site and found that the ThinkPad drivers were
needed for some of my other issues (would have thought XP drivers would have
covered it but they don't). I installed several different drivers for
functionality that was lost in the upgrade, after a re-boot, my fan started
to work.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

That makes sense. IBM has all kinds of propietary junk in their laptops. Ask
all the users in my office about the rundll32.exe problem that uses 99% of
the CPU.