Mayban360 wrote on Yesterday, 20:15:

Just got this Satellite CT210. Everything works great(even the battery, holds a charge for an hour). But the fan wont ever turn […]
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Just got this Satellite CT210. Everything works great(even the battery, holds a charge for an hour). But the fan wont ever turn on.

• Replacing the fan wont work because measuring the voltages it shows 0 volts on the connector

• No option to enable/disable fan on bios as ive seen.

• Caps seem to betotally fine

• Removed both NiMh batteries that fortunately didnt leak.

The Floppy drove also does not work but i hear the motor. Most probably broken belt. Anyone knows whats happening with the fan???

So, the fan doesn't come on for a while on that laptop as it's temperature controlled I think by the laptop's embedded controller and it takes a while for it to get hot enough to do that. You can however run "fan.exe" on Toshiba laptops to get the fan to start up immediately - get that here: https://web.archive.org/web/19961219095343/ht … files/index.htm - go into DOS utilities and get fan.zip

If testing the fan externally, make sure to use 5 volts or less, or you'll cook the fan.

For the floppy drive, yep it's the belt 😀 They're not too bad to replace if it's one of the later drives with the PCB at the bottom of the drive. Needs ~62mm diameter by 1.5mm tall flat belt to work right

Thermalwrong wrote on Yesterday, 20:55:

So, the fan doesn't come on for a while on that laptop as it's temperature controlled I think by the laptop's embedded controlle […]
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Mayban360 wrote on Yesterday, 20:15:

Just got this Satellite CT210. Everything works great(even the battery, holds a charge for an hour). But the fan wont ever turn […]
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Just got this Satellite CT210. Everything works great(even the battery, holds a charge for an hour). But the fan wont ever turn on.

• Replacing the fan wont work because measuring the voltages it shows 0 volts on the connector

• No option to enable/disable fan on bios as ive seen.

• Caps seem to betotally fine

• Removed both NiMh batteries that fortunately didnt leak.

The Floppy drove also does not work but i hear the motor. Most probably broken belt. Anyone knows whats happening with the fan???

So, the fan doesn't come on for a while on that laptop as it's temperature controlled I think by the laptop's embedded controller and it takes a while for it to get hot enough to do that. You can however run "fan.exe" on Toshiba laptops to get the fan to start up immediately - get that here: https://web.archive.org/web/19961219095343/ht … files/index.htm - go into DOS utilities and get fan.zip

If testing the fan externally, make sure to use 5 volts or less, or you'll cook the fan.

For the floppy drive, yep it's the belt 😀 They're not too bad to replace if it's one of the later drives with the PCB at the bottom of the drive. Needs ~62mm diameter by 1.5mm tall flat belt to work right

Hello! Thanks for the tips.

Tried the Fan.exe thing, it just says "Fan is off.". And when i put Fan.exe on it says "Fan is on." but it does not turn on. Also tried measuring voltages... still 0V:

The floppy drive is the one without light(I remember having one with activity light). Hopefully its an easy fix, got a bunch of belts to try.