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Is there any way to control the fans on a Precision M6500?

post #1 of 29
10/9/10 at 8:31am
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I have my fans running far too much. My work on the computer is not demanding 90 % of the time, with maybe 2 % CPU usage. Still the fans run a lot. Speedfan doesn't even show the fan speed, even with the "Dell" option turned on. And I8kfangui had to be installed with F8 on startup since the driver it installs isn't signed, and still it gave me a BSOD when I tried to start it (something I don't even think I've seen on this computer before...). So does anybody know of a good way to do this, or has Dell made it impossible?

Edit: The core temp is around 45-50, and the ACPI temp, which I suspect is the nVidia built in graphics card, is on 58, which to me seems very low for having fans spin like crazy. Right?
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post #2 of 29
10/9/10 at 10:48am
How many background processes and services are you ruinning?

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post #3 of 29
10/9/10 at 12:50pm
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Only the standards. I have even killed the "real time protection" bull that Norton tries to enforce, which wasn't easy in itself. Still that shouldn't really matter as long as the temperature is low and the CPU usage also low, should it?
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post #4 of 29
10/9/10 at 6:33pm
I checked the GPU temps with different comps that we have here earlier - the fan kicked in at around 48C. If your card is at 58C then it is normal for me to see the fan on, not sure about like crazy though

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post #5 of 29
10/9/10 at 6:54pm
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Thanks! This is when the computer is in a docking station, without anything 3D going on at all. And I don't think that this is the graphics card after all. I keep forgetting that this is a Fire GL, not an nVidia card. So the ACPI in Speedfan, which still is on 58C now in another room, and on a different type of stand, is probably a red herring. I found the ATI Overdrive – Sidebar Gadget, and that shows a temperature of 50 C on idle. Of course that shows a fan speed of 0, but I don't tink it's able to see that fan anyway. Under 100 % lad (test program) the GPU fan sped up at around 52 C and stopped (or at least became inaudible) at the same temperature when I closed the program.

So now I'm pretty sure this is the CPU fan, not the GPU fan. But I would say that when the GPU temp is 52C and the core temp in SpeedFan is 50C and down there really shouldn't be need for any audible fan at all. Do you know if it is possible to change the point where the fans kick in with some obscure Dell program? The BIOS did not have anything for that. This is the first notebook I have that is impossible to control in any way I have found so far.
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post #6 of 29
10/9/10 at 7:05pm
The only utility that I used was RMClock, but no longer due to the fact that I am on 64-bit OS at the moment, and the tool is not working well under 64-Bit.

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post #7 of 29
10/9/10 at 7:10pm
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Too bad. I use W7 64-bit as well. With 8 gig RAM at least I feel that I can use most of it... I didn't know that RMClock supported changing of fan speed, btw. I thought that was only for adjusting the clock speed.

Another thing is that it's strange they don't give out drivers for these graphics cards more often. The last update was in February, and I'm sure things has happened since then. But you can't argue with the stability. I'm very satisfied with that, so I have ordered a Latitude 6410 for my wife's pet shop, instead of the stationary PC she has there. Fully loaded with i7 CPU, 4 gig RAM and all the bells and whistles. Even an 128 gig SSD, but I'm going to steal that one for my Precision... She'll never notice the difference anyway.
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post #8 of 29
10/9/10 at 7:23pm
So you think or hope - ladies have 7th (not 6th) sense as far as their pc hardware concerns

I got a free (old used) M6400 from work and really enjoying it myself. This one came with a Quadro FX3700M - impressive performance.

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post #9 of 29
10/10/10 at 3:52am
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Well, to be honest my wife only got one sense for computers, both hardware and software: She's the Bermud Triangle! If it's possible to mess up a computer she will do it!
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post #10 of 29
10/10/10 at 8:08am
Get her a Panasonic Toughbook then

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post #11 of 29
10/10/10 at 9:05am
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Yeah, I thought about that...until I saw the price!
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post #12 of 29
10/10/10 at 9:08am
Well 3K USD ain't too bad with this one. - 5 years warranty!

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post #13 of 29
10/10/10 at 10:19am
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Not bad, no. But 1000 dollars was around the max I could afford, and that got her an i7 Dell.
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post #14 of 29
10/10/10 at 10:55am
That's a good price for an i7. Any links to it? I might want to show it to a member in the general section

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post #15 of 29
10/10/10 at 12:09pm
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Oh, it was a used one. Only one of those.
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post #16 of 29
10/10/10 at 12:46pm
Can you buy an extended warranty with it? Or are you just taking the chance

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post #17 of 29
10/10/10 at 12:48pm
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It has an extended warranty until july 2013. That will be transfered. I spoke to Dell about that before I even considered buying it. And I have checked that the service tag fits with the name of the guy who has it.
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post #18 of 29
10/10/10 at 1:12pm
Nothing can go wrong then. You found a good bargain.

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post #19 of 29
10/10/10 at 6:03pm
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Thanks! Well, nothing is probably taking it a bit too far with my wife the Bermuda triangle... But at least almost nothing can go wrong.
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post #20 of 29
10/10/10 at 6:10pm
Brave soul - Is she reading your posts

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