The configuration screen is still acting up, but I was able to adjust the minimum fan speed to increase and while it was hard to read the intermittent displays to see what it was set to, I eventually found a 4500RPM, which keeps the cores during basic apps around 100F and the GPU around 120F. So I reinstalled input remapper and tried it again. I installed Speed Fan, which can't control the MBP's fan speed, but it did tell me the GPU and two core CPU temperatures which were pretty hot compared to OS X. But I don't need the Nvidia chips to get screwed up because I'm playing a game in XP. But then I've got SMCFan Control in OS X precisely because Apple's defaults are too low (I set it to 4000 RPM while docked and the temperature rarely goes above 110F and often hovers near 98. It seems ridiculous that Apple couldn't provide some kind of fan control in Boot Camp. I don't know how some of you can call that a decent solution. Having to boot up OS X just to set the fan is ludicrous. There's got to be a better solution for fan control in XP. Basically, the program seems downright awful to me. When I tried to configure "presets", it did nothing. I just tried Input Remapper on my September '08 era MBP (pre-current) runnnig XP Pro in Boot Camp and when I go to the Mac book settings page, it just starts going nuts (keyboard brightness settings start changing and when the fan speeds come up, the whole system locks for like 10 seconds and then continues but the fan speeds reported are totally erratic and then it locks up again and the whole thing repeats until I can hit "OK" and then everything seems OK except I have NO IDEA what the current fan speeds actually are or how to set them when the config screen is so messed up.
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