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pinballwizard51
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January 15th, 2008 12:00
Please Help! i8kfangui disabled my GPU fan!
I've had an inspiron 9300 for about 3 years now, and recently upgraded to 2gb of ram. Since then the computer was getting kinda hot, so I installed i8kfangui to monitor the temps. However, after the install my GPU fan stopped running, and even the Dell Diagnostics shows it as failing the diagnostic test. (Error Code 3700:011B) I uninstalled the program... nothing. I updated the bios from A03 to A05 to see if that would correct the problem, but with no success. Next thing I can think of is to reformat and hope the problem is in the registry somewhere. Anyone? Help? Please?
pinballwizard51
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Posted January 15th, 2008 17:00
Before I replace the fan, i need to confirm it is a hardware issue. So I think I'm gonna open up the casing and plug the GPU fan into the CPU fan's 5v plug. Then when I run the diagnostics the "CPU Fan" should fail, since it will be my faulty GPU one. If that's the case, I'll just get a new fan.
The reason I was thinking of reformatting is I read on a board that i8kfangui ended up disabling the poster's GPU fan, and he had to update the BIOS and reformat to get it work (ie it wasn't a hardware problem).
Thoughts?
Message Edited by pinballwizard51 on 01-15-2008 01:17 PMpinballwizard51
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Posted January 15th, 2008 19:00
Well thats good (although I swear the diagnostics run in a Win98 boot). Sounds like the fan is just broken. I'm just lucky I haven't played a game on this in a few months or I would have fried the GPU.
Thanks for the help. Now, it's a matter of waiting for my replacement fan to be shipped...
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Posted January 15th, 2008 15:00
you need a new fan assembly.