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    HAS THE FAN ISSUE BEEN FIXED Or WHAT?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kuat, Jun 3, 2011.

  1. Kuat

    Kuat Notebook Guru

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    teh random fan spinning is driving me nuts

    :mad:
     
    Kuat, Jun 3, 2011
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  2. ollie2001

    ollie2001 Notebook Guru

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    Send it back then?
     
    ollie2001, Jun 3, 2011
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    weapon Notebook Guru

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    mine has only been happening since i repasted. Have you taken yours apart yet?
     
    weapon, Jun 3, 2011
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    obsidian88 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I sent mine back to Dell for inspection a while back, just for them to check the internals. They didn't notice anything wrong but replaced my CPU fan and inspected the heatsink. Obviously came back the same way.

    The best "fix" would be to set your global graphics choice to the integrated card (under Nvidia control panel) and keep your power option to power saver. That pretty much reduces the fan ramping to only every 5-10 minutes.
     
    obsidian88, Jun 3, 2011
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  5. toronto

    toronto Notebook Deity

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    Oh yeah, that makes sense: disable your good discrete graphics card so that the fan won't come on. ;(
     
    toronto, Jun 4, 2011
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    lamer01 Notebook Consultant

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    Guys, I don't see the problem. You have a high powered GPU and high powered CPU in a laptop shell. The fan needs to run. Mine kicks in every few minutes and only runs for a few seconds and even then it's not at full blast. Yes, I do have my global setting being the Integrated graphics but that is good enough for browsing, etc. When I play games, it switches to the Nvidia card but then the fan goes on continuously and I am ok with that since my desktop video card does the same thing.
     
    lamer01, Jun 4, 2011
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    Nigel8600 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yup that's very true about what you say, but it sounds like you have an optimus, maybe he has the 3D with no optimus?
     
    Nigel8600, Jun 4, 2011
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