dell inspiron 530s loud fan
Customer asked me to install a new PC (Dell inspiron 530s), and to transfer files from her old PC.
It seems like a reasonable system (3GB ram, vista home premium, core 2 duo, etc)
Once I connect everything, I fire it up, and I notice the CPU (or PSU) fan are very noisy (running at full speed). I would expect the fan to go quiet after a few seconds.
Anyway, I decide to worry about it last, as I have a lot of configuration to do (remove norton, and some other junk, and then install/configure antivir, defender, spyware blaster, winpatrol, bhodemon, office, etc).
I also don’t have a crosover ethernet cable with me… So I’m reduced to copying about 15Gb of music files using my 1GB usb drive… painfully time consuming!
I then run out of time, so I ask Andrew to track down the solution to the noisy fan.
I suspect its a bios problem, or a faulty motherboard/fan
Andrew downloads and installs an updated bios ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19675114-Dell-530s-very-noisy )
And now, the PC is very quiet.
I wonder why Dell would ship PCs with a such an obvious software fault?
Many users would struggle to fix this type of problem.
I’ve got this PC (just not the slim version) and right out of the box the second case fan is loud for about 3 seconds on startup. Same thing happens when waking from sleep mode. I might replace it with a quieter fan if I can’t fix the startup issue. Maybe it’s there for a reason.
That is the normal behavior. when you turn on the system , the board does a test on all fans. after 2 to 5 secs, all fans goes normal.
I’ve narrowed it back down to the CPU fan, not the case fan. I guess I could replace it because the fan is a bit loud on its own too.