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Old computer Windows 10, Fan out of control , no bios updates....
I have an HP p6180t that I use for an HTPC. This PC was originally labled as a Vista PC with a free upgrade to W7 and then W10 came along and I went with that.
The bios is American Megatrends, v2.61 revision 5.09. Motherboard is HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Motherboard Specifications, IPIEL-LA3 (Eureka3) | HP® Customer Support
HP does not support this computer for W10 nor provide any drivers. Their driver detection utility recognizes its not a supported OS and exits.
The CPU fan runs constantly, I tried changing performance from high performance to balanced and set fan cooling to passive. According to speccy temps look good. While I may salvage this thing soon, it still runs pretty good , has a good processor and I'd hate to trash it over a fan.
I tried installing speedfan but it cant do anything but monitor. Any suggestions? I would like to find a later bios version however, I think if I go from 5.09 to 6.xx I may have issues (based on a random post I found on a similar machine)