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The Fjonis
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October 19th, 2005 14:00
A05 BIOS --> system overheating?
I recently downloaded and installed BIOS version A05. (I used A04 before). I noticed that the new BIOS reduces the fan speeds on my Inspiron 9300 significantly - during normal work, it can barely be heard.
This is weird, as there was no mention of any change in fan speeds in the information about AO5.. Is this an error, or is it safe to continue using A05? How can I check whether my computer is getting too hot? And what exactly is "too hot" anyway? Should I revert to A04?
This is weird, as there was no mention of any change in fan speeds in the information about AO5.. Is this an error, or is it safe to continue using A05? How can I check whether my computer is getting too hot? And what exactly is "too hot" anyway? Should I revert to A04?
The Fjonis
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I suppose you're right... but I'd prefer not to find out "the hard way". So I decided to revert to A04. I can live with higher fan RPMs if that is better for my system.
@The Fjonis wrote:
I recently downloaded and installed BIOS version A05. (I used A04 before). I noticed that the new BIOS reduces the fan speeds on my Inspiron 9300 significantly - during normal work, it can barely be heard.
I found this myself too, then I think bios A05 perform better than A04 especially related with Power Management actions.
With A04 I had few problems Suspending, and Resume was pretty much slow. Now it is pretty fast, also with a lot of external devices connected to the resuming machine and with a lot of applications and drivers loaded.
In my opinion the Fan speed is now greatly optimized also related with the noise: the system is now completely silent and I like it, especially when I work in the night :-)
Related with the temperature, I found my system used to work (battery mode) under 30 degree (celsius) before the upgrade and now it work under 50 at maximum load, like when I play DVD.
When connected to AC my readings go from 40 to 60: with A04 they were 35 to 45.
This new temperatures are totally acceptable for this Centrino processors.
However, IMHO, it was better if Dell had put all this changes in Bios Changelog.
It is interesting listen to other opinions, if some of u guys have loaded this new bios and can eventually report problems (it work great for me).- I did not like the update and reverted back to A04. The heat increase was very noticeable for basic tasks, I cannot imagine if I was gaming. When I am gaimg on A04 temps got to 50+ but for normal activities it was ~35. Now for normal tasks its at 50+, not cool, literally =)
@amp2440 wrote:
I have also installed A05 and my GPU gets up to about 80C during gaming. Using i9kFanGui, I see that my GPU fan doesn't spin more than ~3100 RPM. Is this normal, or is the fan failing. You'd think it would go faster when the GPU got this hot.
Go back to A04, higher heat = shorter laptop life.yea thats what i did when i had Ao4 i played games and the laptop was cooled but when i installed A05 it was getting soo hot for just surfing the web so i decided to switch back to A04 and now my laptop is running much cooler so i dont have to worry about overheating or burning my motherboard
- I recently got my fans replaced because they were making rattling noises, and when the Dell tech removed the fans, there was a complete blockage of the heatsink by a blanket of dust on both. Removal of that dust dropped my temps 20 degrees. Just something to keep in mind.
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Posted October 19th, 2005 14:00