Advent 8117 laptop

Thread starter crossie2uk
Start date Sep 20, 2007

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crossie2uk

Sep 20, 2007

#1

Hi, this might sound silly but what dose the fan button do? its the one next to the power button.

Tmagic650

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Sep 29, 2007

#2

It probably speeds up the cooling fans manually, or overrides the auto fan speed settings

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