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PCMCIA fan?

post #1 of 12
2/5/04 at 3:04pm
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i was listening to my hands sizzle and deafened by the roar of my 8890-V uber L337 Sager, and i noticed that i am not currently using either of my PCMCIA slots... does anyone know of where i can purchase / or create a PCMCIA slot fan?

i am at college, so my technical resources are limited...

thanks

napalmdvt
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post #2 of 12
2/5/04 at 3:22pm
Nope. Besides, it would probably just suck in more lint and dust to clog up your sweet little machine's cooling systems even more than it does now in your probable dust bunny clogged existance. And it would just add to the cooling problem and reduce battery life even more.
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post #3 of 12
2/5/04 at 3:27pm
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well...

i found one

http://www.banleong.com.sg/tech/prod...oler/nb101.htm

but i have a question. will my sager power it if the PCMCIA card has no data points?

as to clogging, it has a filter....

as to battery... this beast isn't exactally portable.. but my G5 power book is...

napalmdvt
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post #4 of 12
2/5/04 at 3:41pm
One of the other grads here created an external, low volume fan system out of aquarium plexiglass that he plugs into his PCMCIA slot for a poor Compaq he has. He added part of an aquarium filter to remove the bunnies. Holding my hand next to the vents I definately feel more hot air leaving when the fan is on.

However, this is not an uber system...just poor design ect. My concern would be that certain areas of the system would be bypassed that normally receive cooling air flow...air passes route of least resistance. I personally would think twice...I don't know what areas were given priority by the engineers who designed the system.

I decided to add additional fans to my box. Took temp readings with a probe in different areas before addition...added the fans...created a whole different air flow pattern inside. Certain areas were definately cooler especially the regions I tried to cool (chipsets)...but some were definately higher (in between my HDD arrangement).
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post #5 of 12
2/5/04 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by Napalmdvt
well...

i found one

http://www.banleong.com.sg/tech/prod...oler/nb101.htm

but i have a question. will my sager power it if the PCMCIA card has no data points?

as to clogging, it has a filter....

as to battery... this beast isn't exactally portable.. but my G5 power book is...

napalmdvt
That particular fan might not work. Read about it here.
http://www.dansdata.com/jfans2.htm
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post #6 of 12
2/5/04 at 5:00pm
From above mentioned article - for the lazy...

"This fan, and the various other products that look and work just like it, seem quite likely to not work at all if your laptop runs Windows 2000 or XP. Since the fan only connects to the PCMCIA slot's power pins, not any of the data ones, the computer doesn't think there's anything there at all, and doesn't power up the slot. I don't think this problem is solvable. Older portables power their PCMCIA slots all the time."
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post #7 of 12
2/5/04 at 6:34pm
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is there no way to power it? i mean, come on... its windows... there should be a loophole method (sort of like henrik's temp method) to power it...

or... should i do this?

http://perso.wanadoo.es/javixramirez/PCMCIA_FAN.htm

its just an idea... i really don't want to use a laptop cooler, as my lappy is at the perfect height as it sits now

thanks...
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post #8 of 12
2/5/04 at 10:09pm
I don't really see how it would be all that much help anyway. All the laptops I've ever had open had the PCMCIA slot(s) pretty much in a contained enclosure inside the laptop (for shielding?) and weren't really "open" to the rest of the interior.
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post #9 of 12
2/6/04 at 12:53am
I dont see why they couldnt make a driver from WinXP... It'd just need to be a dummy driver pretty much. Something to fool the system into thinking something is attached. But is it worth it - thats the question.
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post #10 of 12
2/6/04 at 1:55pm
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hhhmmm... can't decide if i should go for it... i mean, theoretically it could be good blowing air across the inside, but it could also be interferring with the other fans... hhhhmm...
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post #11 of 12
3/24/04 at 7:00am
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i looked into the inside of the case, and i think a pcmcia fan blowing upward would increase airflow over the ram, essentially increasing the volume of air that the little fan is moving... the air would still blow toward the copper heatsink, and besides keeping the ram cooler, would keep the keyboard / handrest cooler...

anyhelp on finding a dummy driver or advice for powering suck a fan?

if it doesn't work, at least i did something productive besides studying
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post #12 of 12
3/24/04 at 9:07am
one other thing Nalamdvt, if your 8890 is making a bit of noise you might care to perform the "fan quieting modification" on it. Mine is now as quiet as any other laptop. Most of the noise is due to resonance between the internal fan and the mobo.

See this thread: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=11150
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