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    m15x Fan Problem Advice/Help

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by tik987, Jan 6, 2011.

  1. tik987

    tik987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok, well i figured it out that i can run some drivers with a good performance and so on.
    I have a problem now well i managed to get a hold of a different alienware that did not have a hard drive, so i took mine out from my laptop and installed on the other alienware (m5550) and managed to boot up and get straight into windows (my windows from the m15x)
    so my problem is that my fan for my video card does not kick in full blast when it hits 100C its just on all the time but maybe 50% on never off or full.

    should the system information gotten mixed up? do i need to install windows 7 again? or would it be possible that flashing the bios card once made the fans just always stay on when its running windows? let me know so i can fix this issue right away! thanks :)
     
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    tik987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone?
    well problem is that the cpu fan will kick in full blast after certain temp 47c or so.
    and gpu fan is always on at low speed never on any higher.. i tried to downgrade bios to x32 and made my way back up to x36 now. and still nothing.
    anyone had this before? im sure someone had this problem with the fan going on full for cpu but not for gpu.

    thanks!
     
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    tik987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks for the reply!! i will try this out and report! just need to find the download for that older bios..

    update: x30 bios http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=525X832&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.alienware.com%2FSupport_Pages%2FRestricted_Downloads%2FMobile%2Fm15x%2FBIOS%2Fm15x_x30r.zip&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.notebookreview.com%2Falienware%2F228872-area-51-m15x-update-alienware-37.html


    AMAZING YOU ARE!!!
    IT WORKED SO x30 FIXES THAT ISSUE WITH FAN STICKING TO 2600RPM! even gett good performance for an old bios :)
     
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    tik987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    actually after some minutes working with it, was the fan coming from the cpu that it did fix but the gpu fan still remains.. seems like its opposite fan settings gpu should run for the cpu, and cpu setting should run for the gpu.
    the cpu gradually gets louder, then before it would automatically just get loud.
    im wondering if it has something to do that i flashed the VBIOS once..

    UPDATE:
    Alright problem officially solved anyone out there with this problem..
    i un-installed chipset drivers and any other driver from device manager and as soon as i did that fan started to kick in more. so solution un-install devices under device manager and make sure you have x30 bios installed that should do.
     
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    tik987 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok after several testing..i came to a conclusion that there is a bug on the fan.
    if i move it around at times or press on the bottom case the fan will start up loud or shut off to less rpms vise versa...has ANYONE had this issue? or knows what is shorting it? it leads sometimes to a shutdown.
    thanks