7811fx Help, Is My Fan Broke?

Hi,

I've been having my 7811FX crash on my after 1hour or so of gaming (Quake4, Oblivion, WoW....). My GPU and CPU temps seem normal (50 max for CPU and 70 for GPU). And yes, I've installed 177.92 nvidia drivers, as well as fresh install of Vista.

But I noticed that even when I am running games one of the fans on my 7811FX does not spin. I am referring to the fan on the RIGHT SIDE of the laptop if you're looking from the top-down onto the keyboard. It is on the same side as the speaker plug. The other fan, which is located on the CD-drive/power button side seems to spin fine.

So 7811 owners, dooes the fan on the speaker plug side of your laptop spin when you are gaming???

 

you refer to the cpu fan, the reason it is not spinning is that 50c is not hot.

you can use orthos to test if it spins once it hit 60 -65c

 

That one should be the gpu fan. I think its a bit more quiet than the cpu fan.

Easy test: put your hand next to the back vent and feel the warm air rushing out.

btw left fan should be on at 70C for gpu

 

OK I'm voting for left fan being GPU. It responds to GPU temps but I have not had my eyeballs on it with bottom off.

 

Yes, I believe that GPU fan is on the left. Are you sure the one on the right isn't spinning? I thought so too until I shined a light on it and it was in fact spinning but not making any noise...

 

take it from one who has replaced his cpu, i know where the cpu fan is.
it is the one blowing to the rear as opposed to the one blowing to the left (gpu).

 

I wholeheartedly concur. That is unless there is some radical mobo change in the 7811, which I doubt.

 

that is the case. and I can prove that you think it is broken because the fan's almost stop and then once the temps rise it does a quick burst to cool them down.


that is a pic of my system idling for the most part

core = gpu

cpu = cpu in case of confusion

 

You're STILL having that stupid problem many of us are having and you've done what I'm about to do already..

This doesn't give me much hope.


Well I'm 95% sure that 99% of these problems with the bad eggs of this model aren't from overheating but some random deformation. Some fixes work for people while they don't for others.

 

dude...I have had this laptop longer then most people on this forum have, minus one or two. and I have not had any issues with it. I beat the hell out of it every day and it has NEVER yes NEVER had any problems.

 

Yeah well over the past week mine has froze 49 times during gaming. lol

WMI 10 Error seems impossible to fix. They're not exclusive to the 7811FX but seem to be more common on it. I've got a few more things to try but I have little hope. I'll likely end up demanding an exchange.

 

just go get an exchange. I have mine running almost from factory(updated video driver last week) I have NO clue on what is causing that error.

 

For this specific model?

 

how are you sure it s broken.

you know what do this


follow the guide in my signature and rep me of course

and post up a print screen of the graphs over a 20 minute time frame at ilde like I did and we will compare.