Fan Control Success on IBM T40? (another quick Q)

[Nate Lawson]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jeffrey Katcher wrote:
> FYI, if anyone needs to update their Thinkpad BIOS/system controller and
> doesn't
> have a floppy or run Windows, I have a working procedure involving Bochs,
> FreeDOS,
> and bootable CDs.  Bochs/FreeDOS is used to generate floppy boot images from
> IBM's
> DOS only BIOS/system controller updaters which are then burned as standalone
> boot
> CDs to remove the necessity of having a floppy drive.
>
> The current T40 system controller (3.0a)/BIOS (3.04) seems quite a bit better
> about powering down the fan.

I don't know if anyone is reading/using the ACPI section of the handbook
but this should be one of the first suggestions in it.  UPDATE YOUR BIOS
AND/OR EC BEFORE COMPLAINING.  :)

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html

-Nate