roman700
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Hi
I have a Dell XPS15 from a few years ago with an i7 4712HQ processor.
A few months ago (I think after a series of crashes, but can't quite remember) one of the fans started running, remaining on until power off. As soon as the button is pressed to power on, the fan comes on - straight away.
I tried all sorts to stop it, killing unnecessary processes and trying to adjust stuff in the BIOS, lots of tips and tricks from various sources. Still on.
It makes the laptop unpleasant to use, but I'm lucky enough to have another computer in the house so have been using that.
Now after a few months I would now like to fix t if I can! I've mostly given up with software fiddles, however.
Do you think removing that fan completely and using with no fan there is a safe option? It's the one on the right of the computer while looking at the computer face on.
Maybe a replacement fan could help?(I guess at around £12 it's not such a big risk).
My usage is general/basic office tasks/web browsing and if possible a bit of video editing as well from time to time (but can do without that, just aiming for a basic quiet computer at this time).
For what it's worth, the wifi stopped completely a few months ago too, again, and I felt I tried everything! I ended up taking the wlan card out (from the other side of the computer) and used a dongle instead.
Thanks for reading and any advice.
I have a Dell XPS15 from a few years ago with an i7 4712HQ processor.
A few months ago (I think after a series of crashes, but can't quite remember) one of the fans started running, remaining on until power off. As soon as the button is pressed to power on, the fan comes on - straight away.
I tried all sorts to stop it, killing unnecessary processes and trying to adjust stuff in the BIOS, lots of tips and tricks from various sources. Still on.
It makes the laptop unpleasant to use, but I'm lucky enough to have another computer in the house so have been using that.
Now after a few months I would now like to fix t if I can! I've mostly given up with software fiddles, however.
Do you think removing that fan completely and using with no fan there is a safe option? It's the one on the right of the computer while looking at the computer face on.
Maybe a replacement fan could help?(I guess at around £12 it's not such a big risk).
My usage is general/basic office tasks/web browsing and if possible a bit of video editing as well from time to time (but can do without that, just aiming for a basic quiet computer at this time).
For what it's worth, the wifi stopped completely a few months ago too, again, and I felt I tried everything! I ended up taking the wlan card out (from the other side of the computer) and used a dongle instead.
Thanks for reading and any advice.