Control fan speed under windows 7 installed with bootcamp on mac

This week end temperature suddenly came back to 30s (Celcius) which mean winter seems to be over here (HK). Although this is fantastic new as the weather was gorgeous, my trusty mac wasn't so happy. I put him under very heavy load, and cooling didn't seem to work so great.

So i went trying to manually crank up the fan speed. I tried SpeedFan which is a very good tool, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be able to control fan speed on my Mac running windows 7 (from what I've read in various places  this is "normal").

Still I've found a work around, simple increase the default running speed of the fans. It doesn't make my box more noisy, but that's fine for me. Do do that you need to change the default running speed of the fan under MacOs and it'll carry over to Windows7.

I did that using a tool named "Fan Control". Install it, raise the speed to max and all the thresholds to the minimum.

Install Windows 7 with boot camp on mac (Part 2)

Small resume from Part 1:

• I am the (un)happy owner of a late 2008 Macbook Pro
• My super Drive is DEAD
• I have Mac OS X Lion installed on my mac
• For whatever (foolish) reason I want to install Windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition
• I used Bootcamp 4.0.1

In the guide below i will explain how i managed to (finally) install Windows 7 on my bootcamp partition. But before we go further, some important warning. This whole procedure is at best dangerous, and is not for the faint hearted. It can possibly screw up your disk, follow it at your own risk. I strongly advise that you read this guide completely before starting this whole procedure by yourself. Now that you've been warned, let's get started.

Windows 7 with boot camp on macbook late 2008 (Part 1)

In this serie of articles, i will describe the steps I followed while trying to install a Windows 7 in Boot Camp. I will try to make this guide as detailed as possible in hope it'll be helpful to other people. But before i dive in a bit of context, that has its importance.

My computer is a MacBook Pro of late 2008, whose Superdrive is unfortunately dead. Which meant i was not able to simple put in the DVD install of Windows 7 into my Superdrive into my MacBook, which left me with trying to install it from a USB boot disk. Unfortunately, my Mac being from late 2008, it means that usb boot disk was out of the question, which i only discovered after trying to the steps below.