Vostro 1310 fan noise

I recently purcahsed a vostro 1310 laptop. It's been absolutely great, except for one thing: the fan is incredibly annoying.

Once the processor reaches 45 degrees celsius, the fan kicks in, lowers it to 40, and then turns off. A few minutes later, the computer will go up to 45, and the fan will kick in again; so it goes through this loop of turning on and off, which is incredibly annoying.

Doing some more research, I've found that other people have also had this 'problem'. Undervolting and switching to powersaving mode solved the problem a bit, but once it hits 45, I still have the same problem.

Is there any way to change the fan settings so that the fan runs at low speed for more time (so that the fan doesn't kick into high gear once reaching 45)? Thanks for your help

 

I would try flashing some different BIOS revisions first... sometimes Dell changes the thermal tables across BIOS revisions and you may find a nice one in which the fan kicks in at a higher temperature. Failing that, you could try playing around with i8kfangui, but I'm not sure if it works with the Vostro 1x10 line.

 

If you think thats annoying, once my Vostro 1510 fan kicks in, it stays on for minutes at a time to shut off for a few seconds and then turns back on.

You could try replacing the thermal paste with some arctic silver 5 and see if that helps.


What CPU do you have?

 

Thanks, I might look into that. Does replacing the thermal paste void the warranty though?

I've got a t9300 processor

 

update the bios may solve the problem.