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post #1 of 27
7/12/06 at 11:56pm
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are the fans always on by default?

or do they turn on when they need to? does i9kfangui work with the new chipsets?
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post #2 of 27
7/13/06 at 12:28am
dont use i9k use the actual i8k and there is only 1 fan i just turn it on high but thats your choice
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post #3 of 27
7/13/06 at 12:37am
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how does the bios control the fans, i mean, are they off sometimes? or always on low?

thanks much boo1
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post #4 of 27
7/13/06 at 12:47am
its automatic , i dont know about bios. if it gets hot it turns on. i dont mind the noise so its on high always if i watch a movie i might turn it to low
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post #5 of 27
7/13/06 at 1:01am
The fan cycles on/off. It rarely runs and when it does spin up you can barely hear it. The fan noise is not obnoxious like some machines.
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post #6 of 27
7/13/06 at 1:38am
D*** it. Guess mine is really a lemon then. It seems to be on most of the time because I always seem to hear it... And I though it is normal for the M1210 fans to be on most of the time. Note that I have not installed i8kfangui on it.
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post #7 of 27
7/13/06 at 2:14am
yeah my fan is hardly audible when it does kick in, and i can feel it stronger when playing games such as everquest 2 than watching a dvd. but most of the time it doesnt seem to be turned on at all due to the lack of intensive tasks. in all, i really like it, its really quiet, and does the job.
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post #8 of 27
7/13/06 at 1:23pm
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nice. thanks all! youve movin me one step closer to a decision
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post #9 of 27
7/13/06 at 3:53pm
Come on chevyrulz099, get one! You'll love the M1210.
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post #10 of 27
7/13/06 at 10:20pm
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im sure i will. wish i could see it first though. the closest dell store is 100s mi. away

ah well, ive got a nice new macbook to entertain me for the next 3 months. that will be going bye-bye then, and i will have to decide if i want another, or a xps.

and please, no one start the "apples suck, or xp is better than osx" garbage. my decision will be based on my opinions, not everyone elses
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post #11 of 27
7/14/06 at 12:10am
SPEEDwithJJ,

My M1210's fan seems to always be on too LOL, guess we got ours off the Lemon Express.
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post #12 of 27
7/14/06 at 12:22am
Yeah. Lemon Express. Mine is warm with the fan on almost all the time.... Guess I'm really on Dell's "Hit List!!!" this time & they've just got me!!!
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post #13 of 27
7/14/06 at 12:39pm
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would either of you with the xps 1210 mind posting some pictures?

like of the sides/back maybe 1/2 of top.?

i cant seem to find them on this forum
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post #14 of 27
7/14/06 at 12:45pm
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nevermind, some odd reason the search button wasnt returning anything i wanted to see.

foudn one.
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post #15 of 27
7/14/06 at 4:05pm
SPEEDwithJJ, another thing I noticed when I first took off the keyboard was that it was missing the middle screw and one of the screws on the LCD with the rubber on it was not screwed all the way in... Dell need's to address these assembly line issues, esp. with a product as "upscale" as the XPS.

I would not be suprised if Dell forgot to add thermal pads or paste on the graphics card or CPU... cuz when I use the XPS on battery the fan does not turn on, only when on AC does it run constantly.
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post #16 of 27
7/14/06 at 4:25pm
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Originally Posted by NYCscorpio2000
SPEEDwithJJ, another thing I noticed when I first took off the keyboard was that it was missing the middle screw and one of the screws on the LCD with the rubber on it was not screwed all the way in... Dell need's to address these assembly line issues, esp. with a product as "upscale" as the XPS. I would not be suprised if Dell forgot to add thermal pads or paste on the graphics card or CPU... cuz when I use the XPS on battery the fan does not turn on, only when on AC does it run constantly.
Oh, keyboard missing the middle screw?!?! Wow, I guess I'll have to strip every part of my M1210 to check. I'm worried about whether the assembly guys has put on any thermal paste on my CPU & GPU as well because the fans seems to go on continously after just 15 minutes of me turning on my system & doing almost nothing expect surfing the internet with even my LCD brightness set to the dimmest!!! The wind that is blowing out from the exhaust vent are pretty warm as well. This is really disturbing because it seems that every owner of the M1210 have got their fans working normally except ours.... Yep, with Dell now planning to save lots of money to improve customer service, the one thing I really hope for them to do is to really improve the standards of the assembly lines because if they could have got it right there, then they probably wouldn't have needed to invest so much money on CS, cause it seems obvious to me that quite a lot of the problems seem to come from there. Furthermore, I wouldn't have mind waiting for my system a bit longer just so that they take some extra time to ensure assembly quality. I mean I would have like to have got it right the 1st time & not have to deal with such issues later on. In my opinion, this M1210 is such a great system but sad to say it is badly let down by assembly & maybe build.
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post #17 of 27
7/14/06 at 4:34pm
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wow, dells famous TOP TIER XPS sub par line, that stinks.

ill still take a big look at a 1210. thermal paste is usually reapplied by me anyways.
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post #18 of 27
7/14/06 at 4:57pm
I'll have to repeat that the M1210 is a great system but somehow I seem to be getting a lemon so if you're going to get a M1210, you shouldn't look too much into my issues.

Anyway, I'll still recommend this system to anyone who is interested in one because it is basically a great system (for the money).
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post #19 of 27
7/14/06 at 5:33pm
Rubbish. The fan on the M1210 (there is only as far as I can tell) is pretty much always running. Whether you can hear it or not is not up for debate. It's VERY quiet when it's on low, so I can imagine some people thinking it's not running, whereas it really is. My CPU in the M1210 runs a little hotter though than the one in my M1710 (same processor - 2.0 Core Duo). I get mid 30s on my M1710 whereas I get 40s idling on my M1210.

So yes, the M1210 does run warmer. However, there's nothing wrong with it.
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post #20 of 27
7/14/06 at 10:01pm
I am hoping that too WilliamG, I tend to think that the fan on the XPS M1210 WITHOUT the dedicated graphics might be the one people refer to when they say their fan doesn't turn on a lot... My 700m's fan only came on periodically. If the 7400Go M1210's fan is usually on when on A/C, it's probably because the cooling assembly passes over the CPU, GPU and Southbridge, so cooling 3 pretty hot items would cause the fan to be on most of the time.

You are correct that the fan is extremely quiet and I only noticed it on when I placed my fan over the exhaust vent.
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