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    Scary Laptop Moment - FAN FAILED

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by xnightxwingx, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. xnightxwingx

    xnightxwingx Notebook Consultant

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    hey guys i havent posted in a while,

    Alright so this happened to me twice so far and I've only owned my 1530 for about 1-2months. In both instances, I had left my laptop on for a couple of nights. So I was playing CS and I noticed that the area next to tab, caps lock, and shift was extremely hot, I didn't really pay much attention to it because the arm rest wasn't since I have a notebook cooler. When I closed the game, and too my headset off I didn't hear my fan on and put my hand in front of the exhaust area to see if there was any air coming out. There wasn't! so i opened HWmonitor to check temps. The gpu was 93 degrees C. So I shut down waited a couple min and started my laptop again. The fan turned back on and cooled the laptop down. The first time it happened to me it was hitting 100 degrees C because I didn't have a notebook cooler at that time.

    So now I'm seeing if anyone else has experienced this and should I get the 8600 replaced with a ATI? I really like nvidia though T.T
     
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  2. tumnasgt

    tumnasgt Notebook Evangelist

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    That's got nothing to with NVIDIA graphics, it sounds like there is a bug in the BIOS. Have you checked that your computer has the latest BIOS installed? If the BIOS is up to date, you should ring up Dell and let them know, so they are able to fix the problem.
     
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    Man I hope my fan never fails on me. I have an Inspiron 9300 that is 3 years old and the fans are still going good on it.
     
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  4. xnightxwingx

    xnightxwingx Notebook Consultant

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    I have A09. I contacted them through chat the first time that happened and I think I have to pay for a ATI card.
     
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  5. tumnasgt

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    You won't be able to get an ATI card for the M1530, as the GPU is soldered to the motherboard, and Dell only sell the M1530 with NVIDIA chips, so that's the only thing that can be had.

    From Dell's site:
    "Fixes/Enhancements
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    1. Added enhancement for thermal control.
    2. Update Intel CPU family name."

    As they changed some thermal elements of the BIOS, you might wanna go back to A08 and see if that fixes the problem, it is not unheard of for new problems to be introduced in newer revisions.
     
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  6. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    It could be a hardware issue and the fan is going bad.
     
    atbnet, Sep 17, 2008
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