Posts by wessam

Any ideas on this I would appreciate hearing also. I can only take an hour or so of the fan whine on my 8890 before I start to go insane. How do the rest of you stand it?

See if they can help you and get ready to RMA.

The fan "always on" problem didn't occur until the second motherboard. It would fire up after 2-3 minutes and not turn off. It now cycles on and off depending on how hot it gets. It also goes off upon hibernate and/or...

[I have been waiting a week to post this to see if any further problems developed but after 3-1/2 months, 3 motherboards, and 4 sets of RAM, my 8890 now seems to work flawlessly (knock on wood). No more game crashing and the fan...

Quote: Originally Posted by GeneralChaos try cleaning the dust and crap out, my fine would never turn off either and run full blast, but now it doesnt since i cleaned it. Already sent it back in for (I guess)...

Just got Call of Duty and Max Payne 2, so I thought I'd test this lemon one more time to see if could handle it. Remember I have already replaced the RAM (twice) and the motherboard. Result: Nothing but crashes. So I did the...

Mine stays on [occasionally] even after complete shutdown. I have to unplug it to stop it. Sager Tech has no idea why this happens

I finally flashed the BIOS from Sager Support on my 8890 (dual 60g 7200 Raid 0/3.2gHT/1024RAM/dvd-rw). The fan seems to stop now when I shut the system down through Windows. However, the fan does not turn off when I close the lid...

Support e-mailed the above zip file to me. However, when I extracted it to a floppy and re-booted (as instructed), my 8890 wouldn't recognize it. I am waiting for Sager Support to get back to me on what (they or I) did wrong. ...

They are sending me a BIOS update for the fan "non-turn off" problem. I'll let you know how it works.