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    m17xr1 fans keep running

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by rockfock, May 13, 2012.

  1. rockfock

    rockfock Notebook Consultant

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    My fans keep running on a medium speed even though my cores are only at 40C. They wont stop running and i dont know what to do. My GPUs are a little hotter at 58C and 52C. I already tried cleaning my system fan but i didnt get in my computer far enough to get to the gpus (indicator bar thing was stuck). Any help is appreciated
     
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  2. SlateJones

    SlateJones Notebook Geek

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    If you are increasing the fsb to overclock, it will mess with the fans... thats what happened to me before i bought the qx9300, now i just use the unlocked multiplier to overclock and my fans work like they are supposed to again.

    Im not sure if there is a workaround for it or not... I never found one... My fans always acted funny when i overclocked my t9600 using the fsb.
    But the qx9300 was cheap and an excellent upgrade, havent had any trouble since.
     
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  3. tyranus7

    tyranus7 Notebook Evangelist

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    That's true. I remember when I was trying to overclock my cpu rising the FSB through BIOS, for some weird reason going over a certain value, will cause the fan of both video cards to stop working. Weird. I was about to fry my cards at that time. Most weird is if you overclock using Nvidia System Tools you'll not have any issue with the fans.

    Now I have no problem because I use ThrottleStop.
     
    tyranus7, May 14, 2012
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