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Is overheating the cause of my recent problems?

post #1 of 5
6/21/08 at 5:27pm
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So I purchased a Vostro 1500 a few months ago, and I've been using i8kfangui to keep my fan on high every since I bought the thing for the sake of keeping it healthy. However, my fan has seemingly burned out and is now unresponsive to anything. Typically, the laptop's core temperature was about 32 degrees celsius with the fans blasting on maximum and about 60 when playing Oblivion or utilizing software that took up a lot of resources. That never seemed to cause a problem. Now, however, my fan is burned out and the laptop idles at about 45 and goes up to 55 when trying to play anything. When it reaches the higher temperatures or even tries to process anything more intense than an a browser the CPU usage jumps up to 100% and never recovers. Is this because of the fan? If so, how can I fix it? This is annoying as hell. The laptop is great all-around, but when it's performing worse than my old one that has less than a third of the power it's quite frustrating.

Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 5
6/24/08 at 11:41am
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Originally Posted by BMihalov View Post
So I purchased a Vostro 1500 a few months ago, and I've been using i8kfangui to keep my fan on high every since I bought the thing for the sake of keeping it healthy. However, my fan has seemingly burned out and is now unresponsive to anything. Typically, the laptop's core temperature was about 32 degrees celsius with the fans blasting on maximum and about 60 when playing Oblivion or utilizing software that took up a lot of resources. That never seemed to cause a problem. Now, however, my fan is burned out and the laptop idles at about 45 and goes up to 55 when trying to play anything. When it reaches the higher temperatures or even tries to process anything more intense than an a browser the CPU usage jumps up to 100% and never recovers. Is this because of the fan? If so, how can I fix it? This is annoying as hell. The laptop is great all-around, but when it's performing worse than my old one that has less than a third of the power it's quite frustrating.
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If your fan burned out you need to replace it. and yes the problem is with the fan
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post #3 of 5
7/18/08 at 12:46am
yeah the cpu will start clocking down, so that's why usage goes up. finally it'll just overheat, thus, the computer shuts down.
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post #4 of 5
7/18/08 at 3:13am
Guess the theory of having the fan going full speed 24/7 didn't keep it healthy lol.

Buy a new fan for it and let the bios control the speeds.....thats what its there for.

My Vostro 1500 didn't run all that hot....playing games 72 on the cpu and low 60's on the GPU from what I remember.
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post #5 of 5
9/9/08 at 5:23pm
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Originally Posted by gerryjoson View Post
Guess the theory of having the fan going full speed 24/7 didn't keep it healthy lol.

Buy a new fan for it and let the bios control the speeds.....thats what its there for.

My Vostro 1500 didn't run all that hot....playing games 72 on the cpu and low 60's on the GPU from what I remember.

I had this here m1210 for almost 2 years now and i run the i8kfan with the option force fan speed never had a issue with the hardware or fan failing.
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