The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Inspiron 15R (N5010) fan randomly spins up without reason every few minutes

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dandv, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. dandv

    dandv Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    128
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Does anyone here have this problem?

    I just bought a Dell Inspiron 15R-1847MRB from Staples and even after updating to the latest BIOS (A12), the fan still randomly starts up every few minutes and stays on (and it's loud) for 20-30 seconds. There is no extra CPU load. I had closed all applications, except Process Explorer, which doesn't show any process consuming more than 5% CPU when the fan ramp up happens.

    The random fan noise is really annoying in a library or classroom, when all I do is type, with Wi-Fi off.

    I posted about this in a thread on Dell's community, and got a reply which was promptly deleted. Here's the reply I received via the thread notification e-mail:

     
    dandv, Feb 7, 2011
    #1
  2. billabong08

    billabong08 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    28
    Messages:
    191
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    No problems with the fan on our 15r....yet. lol
     
    billabong08, Feb 10, 2011
    #2
  3. semifast

    semifast Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I have 4 of them, no fan issues, or any other issues. Why don't you get Dell to look at it ?
     
    semifast, Feb 11, 2011
    #3