Re: Vostro - Noisy Fan at boot
- From: Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:56:59 -0400
The reasons why some of the responses to your post have been quite short with
you is that you have stubbornly refused to accept the reality that your Vostro
is designed the way it is for very practical reasons and you keep looking for a
solution that simply does not exist and probably never will exist.
Dell will not provide a BIOS update unless the clamor about startup fan noise
grows to a crescendo thousands of times louder than the fans themselves. No
way. Most people understand the reason for the fan noise and accept a couple of
seconds of it.
If you want to try modifying the motherboard BIOS, good luck. Don't even go
there. All you need to do is flash the BIOS with some bad code and you won't
hear any fan noise at all because the computer will not power up. Having
tinkered with BIOSes before, I can tell you that figuring out how to change the
BIOS and actually changing the BIOS are two daunting tasks unless you are a
well-qualified BIOS programmer with access to the BIOS source code.
So there you have it. Three choices:
1. Live with it and stop griping about it.
2. Run the system 24/7.
3. Get rid of the system and get one that meets your own unique requirements for
noise levels.
That's it in a nutshell, and really any further discussion of the matter is
entirely fruitless. Really... Ben Myers
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:08:40 +0100, "Andy" <andy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"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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