New Dell Vostro V131

Hi, it's me back again.
1. Which version of the BT driver do you use? Can you point towards the file? Drivers and Downloads | Dell [United States] - under Network I can see 8 different drivers: R360112, R305747, etc... Which one should I use? Why in the hell they place all the different files there? The dumbest help I ever saw.
3. I will check power share via USB 2.0 when finish my work today.
4. I flashed to a new BIOS version A03 - still the same sh** "plugged in, not charging"
5. Yeah, I will disregard that option too - don't want to anything on top of existing issues unresolved.

You know, it is all the smallest things that really annoy and disappoint. Dell has a reputation of a reliable produced. Well I can say that Acer and Asus are much better in customer service and easiness of administering the PC.

 

Hi avyk, try what my friend did. He drained his battery to the point laptop automatically shut down, and forced start up laptop and shutdown automatically a few times until he's sure battery's drained. Then he was able to charge the battery to max.

 

Hi Hirush!
It is not a matter of charging battery to max. My battery now has 0% wear and shows a higher charge than specifications.
The problem is that sometimes the battery controller fails to identify the battery and start charging it...
I have to uninstall the ACPI battery control via Device Manager. Remove the battery. Turn on the computer without battery and wait until it boots up and loads windows. Turn off again. Insert the battery back in. And only after that dumb procedure the system sees the battery and starts charging.
I am very surprised that noone else has it here. If you google "plugged in, not charging" the solution to the problem is ranked #1.

 

Is there anyone solved cpu fan/hdd noise problem? My setting is i5-2430m, 4gb ram, and 500gb hdd.

My cpu fan kicks in whenever the temp hits 50C and the fan runs at full speed. Idle temp is around 42~47. I updated bios a03, but didn't help.

For comparison, I tested my old laptop (which has amd athlon x2 cpu). Its fan doesn't start even at 60c.

 

avyk, I thought you had simmilar symptom as my friend. He had problem charging his battery to around 73% only before he drained the battery. Maybe you should call dell and see what they say. I don't have the issue as you described though.

 

I would find this quite annoying.

anyone come up with a fix? the fan should be variable, not just pop on at top rpm.

if any of you are running with SSD's, are you having the fan pop on so much?

 

Yeah, I noticed that too. Very annoying. I wonder if something like Speedfan will work with it?

 

One more question for those running V131 CELERON models: how's your temperature?

 

I think it is the review done for this very forum in which the reviewer commented about the v131 being considerably warmer than the v130 previously tested, but attrib'd it to the i5 that the test model had.

and to that issue: which processor/config runs the coolest?

 

I don't know exactly whether speedfan works or not, but it seems not. SpeedFan does not recognize this laptop. Interestingly, v131 with i5-2410 is a lot less noisy. Its idle temp is around 40C, which is 3-5 degree less than one with i5-2430.

I also hear scrubbing sounds from HDD(500GB one), and this is actually more annoying. I would ask dell tech support to replace HDD and see if something changes...