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April 24th, 2005 19:00

I-8600 fan

I installed the Dell Updates, and now the fan does not work. Can anyone give me an idea what to look for?
 
Thanks for any info
 

System Summary
Inspiron 8600
Ship Date:  12/21/2003
Dell IBU:  N/A
NOTE: The information contained below relates to this system's original configuration as sold when new.
Quantity Part # Part Description
 1  2C415   Assembly, Cable, 15.4, LIKA
 1  P3490   Assembly, Base (Assembly or Group), Bottom, 10/100, D480, 8600
 1  Y0316   Liquid Crystal Display, WXGA, NO-SPWG, 15.4, Samsung
 1  1M745   Keyboard, 87, United States, England/English, Dual Pointing, D-FMLY, R2
 1  1U327   Pipe, Height, LIKA
 1  7R414   Processor, 848215, 1.4GHZ, 1MB, UPGA
 1  70TVD   Assembly, Cable, S-VIDEO, WEST
 1  F2951   Kit, Cord, FLAT, 3F, D3W/3P, P65, United States
 1  6W610   Keyboard, 104, Universal Serial Bus, United States, RPG, SILITEK
 1  6G648   Dual In-Line Memory Module, 256, 333, 32X64, 8K, 200
 1  2P692   Battery, MDS, 11.1V, 9C, Lithium, SANYO
 1  9T215   Assembly, Adapter, Alternating Current, 90W19.5V, LITEON, World Wide
 1  F3009   Card (Circuit), GRPHC, Nvidia, 32M, NV34, 8600
 1  1Y224   Kit, Software, WKS-STE2K3, Original Equipment Mfgr., England/English
 1  R2553   Kit, Software, Overpack, WXPHSP1A, Compact Diskette w/Documentation, England/English
 1  9Y200   Card (Circuit), Wireless, Mini PCI Card, INTEL2100
 1  H2304   Kit, DOC/DSK, Software, CYBERLINK, 4.14H
 1  0T673   Hard Drive, 60GB, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 9.5MM, 4.2K, IBM-MRGA
 1  8267R   Connector, Header, 2X22, Female, 2, S, Gold, 35K, Third Height, Chip Set
 1  T1420   Assembly, DVD+RW, 4X, NEC, DMOD
 
  • HMKrieps

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    Posted April 25th, 2005 11:00

    Are you sure that your fan isn't working any more? Is your system getting very slow after some time, getting bluescreens, eshutting down because of overheating, tc...?
  • Raicard

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    Posted April 26th, 2005 19:00

    be more specific. what updates.. bios, chipset, etc... anyways you may want to run diags to your fans just to make sure that are not running.
  • FearlessFozz

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    Posted April 26th, 2005 21:00

    Does the fan spin up during the BIOS Post test booting process?  If not the fan may be dead.  If it does then maybe the system just hasn't gotten hot enough for the fan to start up.  My 8500 can go about half an hour before the fan needs to spin up to cool if I am just doing office work.
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    Posted April 26th, 2005 22:00

    Sorry to be so slow about getting back here. The demands on my time are enourmous, largely courtesy of identity theft and credit fraud.

    To try to cover all bases in one post:

    I don't have any idea what updates were installed.  Actually, I did not know that automatic updates had been turned on.

    I ran diagnostics on the fan and heat sensors, and both reported as having passed. But it seems that the fan does not come on during normal operation. No blue screen or automatic shutdown, although it did hang when shutting down after the updates had installed.

    Hopefully, I will have a little time tomorrow to check into things more thouroughly.

    Thanks to everyone for taking the time to respond with suggestions.