Re: Vostro - Noisy Fan at boot


"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think you're missing a HUGE point by comparing the two machines. The
2400 was a consumer class machine manufactured as cheaply as possible
(outsourced by Dell). It was never intended, nor supported, in a
business world where it would get 8 hours of heavy business critical use
a day -- where a fan failure could cost many tens of times the cost of
the machine in lost productivity. If you lost your 2400 for a couple
days, what was the worst that could happen -- you couldn't email your
MySpace friends?

The Vostro, however, is a BUSINESS class computer with much higher
expectations of reliability. Therefore, this 'feature' is intended to
ensure that the machine's fan is operable and the machine wouldn't be
toast between boots. In other words, a higher-class, better designed
computer for about the same money.

So, big win for you!

If, however, this brief run-up of the fan is so annoying to you that
your teeth are grinding every time you boot, then do the obvious.

Return it!

It will only cost you return shipping. That's the beauty of Dell's
liberal return policy. You can then go to your local Best Buy, listen
to each machine as it boots, and buy the quietest one. That would make
you happy.

The one thing that will solve NOTHING is continuing to argue with those
of us on the newsgroup. We're not Dell. We cannot do anything for you.
We're just a bunch of people that VOLUNTEER their time to help other
Dell users. You are WASTING everyone's time by continuing this thread.
LET IT DIE.

Tom


I think you are missing my huge point(s) that both PC get as hot as each other one has a low noise fan and the other has 2 fans of which are noisy at startup. Why would I want to return the Dell Vostro that I am totally happy with apart from the fan noise. I bet the 'home' Inspiron 530 make the same noise as well so its not just because the Vostro was designed for business environment that it does this.

The least I thought someone on this NG could do is maybe help by pointing me in the direction of a program / utility to manage fan noise in a system or tell me if they think that a new BIOS would solve the problem but instead I get 'put up with it' and 'its not serious' and its designed to do that as a check the fans are working' and 'if you dont like it send it back to ell!' - I cannot see how any of these are really helpful comments at all to be quite honest. Yes I have written an email to dell tech support about the fan noise and that was over a week ago and no answer and maybe I will not even get an answer about it.

You and some people on here are Wasting my time when I check this NG for some helpful advice and find that you just say the same things over and over again and don't offer any real help. You are not even friendly about it!

Andy.


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