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    Gigabyte p25w fan / harddrive problem

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by Juryiel, Mar 8, 2014.

  1. Juryiel

    Juryiel Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I have a secondary harddrive installed, one of the fans will never turn off. I don't mean the loud ones that kick in, but the quiet one that may start up if you are browsing or loading a webpage. If I remove the harddrive it seems that the fan is in fact turning off appropriately when not much stuff is going on.

    Is this normal? Is the harddrive making things too cramped, causing too much heat?
     
    Juryiel, Mar 8, 2014
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    Juryiel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nevermind looks like it stopped doing it after a few hours. Possibly doing some file indexing with the new drive since the drive was not empty, or something I don't know, but it's not doing it any more :)
     
    Juryiel, Mar 9, 2014
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    d0mino Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think there is a problem on how the fan speeds are set on the P25W as I had seen some posts about this even before I purchased it. You can have silence to a car engine in the space of a second. If only I was able to edit the BIOS like in my desktop Radeon 7850 and flash a custom fan speed profile. We will have to wait for Gigabyte to sort it if they ever decide to..as with these things, once they have your money they don't tend to care any more. I notice that with some posters that Gigabyte after sales support is hit and miss and including the poor community support, I doubt many people will be inspired to buy any (quite expensive) Gigabyte laptop.
     
    d0mino, Mar 10, 2014
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