Postby rrana1 » Fri Apr 27, 2007 16:24
I have tried the undervolting as suggested in this topic. Unfortunately it didnt do the trick. The fan is consistently on - even in idle mode. I understand that vista requires alot of GPU/CPU power to efficiently run but unfortunately for the m3438g the fan is something that is not related to vista "power" demands as it is always on (even when the laptop is doing nothing). Having checked around a few forums, most notably forums which look at vista and Nvidia it is clear that F.S m3438g users are not the only ones with the "fan consistently on issue", many dell users and laptops with Nvidia PCI graphics cards (mobile) have the same issues as we have. I think it is incorrect to direct our frustrations at F.S - after all the m3438g was made for XP, instead all m3438g users should vent their frustrations at Nvidia since it is 100% the graphics drivers which are causing the consistently fan on issue. On XP it was possible to control the fan via the Nvidia Service process (set on automatic) for those who know this!. & Suprise suprise there is no process in the services menu on Vista which lets the user change the Nvidia driver service. My conclusions are that it is clearly a NVidia driver issue, as a member with an m3438g with an installed ATi graphics card does not have the same problem as m3438g with Nvidia have. I hope this clears a few things up with relation to m3438g users (other F.S laptops I wouldnt know!).
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