Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
So,
I haven't been here in forever.
But since discovering this and achieving way better temps now than ever, I thought it best to pay it forward
But in the thread
Problem with Dell Inspiron E1705
I thought I'd post a solution which may work for a whole lot of people....thread is closed now unfortunately.
Perhaps only until 2009 (I believe dell changed the password or entry since then) if you have a laptop which predates that, you CAN
indeed
Take manual BIOS control of the fans.
You can either do a reset of the temperature monitoring by pressing Fn + Z and holding both then letting go.
OR
Hold Fn + Shift, and while holding, enter 1 5 3 2 4 on your keyboard.
You should have a light flash to establish an engineering mode of sorts has engaged.
There's all sorts of goodies open now, but to engage temp controls,
Now hold Fn + R.
You will enter a screen where you can adjust settings as you wish.
The Fan RPM works as PWM and goes from 00 to FF for 0% to 100% (actual, emergency cooling or overclocking 100%)
This likely won't work for newer laptops, but I think older ones, maybe only up to 2008 this should still work.
** DO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD** not turn off bios thermal control then proceed to turn off your fans and walk away. The CPU will still thermal trip and reset the computer, but you will likely damage the gpu permanently by doing so.
That said, this is an excellent way for you to have 110% control of your systems cooling.
Long time coming but hey if software isn't working for you, this will.
If you have a dell laptop please post if it worked or not, I personally would love to know up to what year it works since I'll be getting a dell based on my ability to control it.
Dell BIOS fan control.
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by matchbox2022, Nov 15, 2015.
