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tigerfan2000
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March 9th, 2007 00:00
Vista unleashed a jet engine in my computer!
Not really, but it sure sounds like it! I installed Vista last night and everything is working fine, but the fan on my NVIDIA card now spins at a high rate of speed. It' doesn't sound like its at full blast, but close. I'm assuming its doing this because of the AERO graphics. Is there anyway to stop this other turning off AERO? I like it, it's pretty. :) Any suggestions?
- Hi,
I installed the Vista upgrade on my Dell XPS710 the other day. With just a few minor problems it went pretty well. One problems is the 7900 GS 256mb, since installing Vista my fan noise is much louder now. I called Dell and we went through all of the drivers on the Nvidia site to install. I think that part is done, did that this past Tuesday. They also sent me from boot up to hit F-2 then go into the bios and change it to quieter, but it did slow down my system. The fan noise changed just a bit, but it's still much noiser then before the install of Vista.
Could someone give me a few ideas or hopefully a fix for this? I'm ok with computers so if you can keep it simple.
On the Dell forum, I was told to ask for another card since there having problems with it, is this true?
Thanks for your help,
Jerry tigerfan2000
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Posted March 10th, 2007 00:00
Hey Jerry, I have the 7900GS as well. I'm glad to know it's not just my imagination. Unfortunately, I haven't found a fix yet, although I haven't bothered trying to see if NVIDIA has updated drivers yet. I'm hearing that NVIDIA has been having a tough time getting good Vista drivers out, but I'm thinking that once they do, it will fix our problem. Anyone else having this problem and found a fix?- It is a driver issue. The Vista drivers currently do NOT vary the fan speed according to the card temp. Until a new driver is released, you can use an nVidia utility called nTune. It is an add-on to your graphics card driver and will allow you, among many (sometimes dangeous) other options, manually adjust the fan speed. Search for it on the nVidia site.Hope they release a new driver soon.
thetrikster
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Posted March 12th, 2007 10:00
I noticed that even with nTune turning the fan down to the point that the GPU starts heating up, it's not exactly a quiet graphics card. I replaced the stock heatsink with a Zalman VF900-Cu over the weekend which took about 20 minutes to do and has now given me a silent graphics card.
MrSparks82
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Posted March 9th, 2007 10:00