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Acer 5742ZG internal fan not initializing
Hi everyone, I've spent the last week reading every possible fix for this problem on these forums and others and nothing so far has worked, so maybe if I spell out my individual situation, there might be a fix?
I bought a brand new out of the box Acer 5742ZG laptop here in Moldova. It seemed fine in the store but it only had Linux Linpus on it...
The fan is not running at all. So you can imagine, it shuts down after about 20 minutes of running Windows 7 and especially quick if I use the internet or anything more laborious.
I had installed it to IDE but switched to AHCI thanks to these forums. I tried their EPower Management tool, but it won't initialize and after finding some screen shots, it looks like an Acer version of the Windows 7 battery Management Tool, nothing to control the fan.
I installed Speed Fan and it works but it cannot find a fan.
I tried a number of other free ware and demo version fan control applications, but nothing can seem to control the fan.
It is starting to sound like a hardware issue and opened a ticket with Acer Euro to start that ball rolling, but the idea of losing this thing for another month while I wait for a repair gives me heart burn.
Any other ideas to somehow kick start the fan if its possible?