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i8kfangui not working anymore

post #1 of 13
11/17/04 at 4:45pm
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hey guys-

i need to know what to do, the fangui program won't read my fan/temp speeds any longer it just has two dashes in the taskbar, and when i do an update from within the program it does the same thing. does this mean my fans are d.o.a.? and if so do i need to contact dell for new ones?

Thanks!
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post #2 of 13
11/17/04 at 5:50pm
Rip it out and let dell software run your fans. That program is not supported by dell and what you are getting sounds like a software error. Try riping out and then re-installing.
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post #3 of 13
11/17/04 at 6:40pm
uninstall it, then slap it back in......should do the trick.
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post #4 of 13
11/17/04 at 7:16pm
yeah did that to me too once. just uninstall reinstall
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post #5 of 13
11/17/04 at 7:36pm
Update the BIOS recently?
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post #6 of 13
11/18/04 at 9:44pm
I had the same issue as of today... And three days ago I updated my BIOS from A03 to A05, and also installed the latest Dell Video drivers and BIOS.

I wonder why it took a few days for the temp thing to break?
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post #7 of 13
11/18/04 at 10:07pm
Happened to me when I went from 03 to 05. All I did was went into the prefs and told it to read and presto.
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post #8 of 13
11/19/04 at 1:51am
its known to be unstable so it will randomly just lose contact with temperature readings.
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post #9 of 13
11/20/04 at 7:54am
It's really strange - I've reinstalled i8kfangui, told it to re-read the temp, but still it's not working.

I can only assume that something related to the A05 BIOS update - but it's strange how it took a few days to break

Dan
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post #10 of 13
11/20/04 at 5:48pm
Ditto here...

I was playing half life 2 and all of a sudden it said it couldn't read one of the fans...then a short time later it stopped reading both. Now all I get is two small blocks in place of where the temp should be in the sys tray. I've also noticed loss of automatic control to fans so I have uninstalled and hope for a better version to someday come out.

U.N.inspector
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post #11 of 13
11/20/04 at 6:08pm
It quit working for me immediately after the A05 BIOS update. Tried reinstalling twice with no luck so I went back to the A04 BIOS I was on previously and it wouldn't work with it anymore either! No FanGUI for me for now...
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post #12 of 13
11/20/04 at 7:26pm
I upgraded to the A05 a week ago, upon reboot FanGUI informed me of the BIOS change. It said it would reconfigure automatically, which it did. Been working correctly since.
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post #13 of 13
11/20/04 at 11:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by 9100-4-me
Rip it out and let dell software run your fans. That program is not supported by dell and what you are getting sounds like a software error. Try riping out and then re-installing.
well said

you can't say that with a non-dell-supported-program
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