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    Help...fan not working properly

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by justasomeone, Nov 21, 2012.

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    justasomeone Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi. I just formatted my laptop and re installed Windows 7. After getting everything set up, I started to play some games and I noticed there was something wrong. Prior to re installing Windows, my CPU idle temperature was anywhere from 27-34C. Now its at 53-57+. My GPU temp before was 46 idle, now it is at 59c. I took a look at GPUZ and it showed my fan speed is stuck on 30%, and my fan RPM is at 0. I downloaded Trixx and tried to manually increase the fan speed, but even when I move the slider to 100%, I don't hear the fan going any faster or making any noise. But when I open the back case, I can see the two fans spinning?

    Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
     
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    Nevermind! I opened up my laptop again and did some extra cleaning, all is good again. Its funny, when I cleaned it yesterday I saw so much dust come out I thought it was clean, but it was still overheating. A few more uses of the Air can but this time I don't see any dust come out..but it's back to normal again.
     
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