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February 25th, 2010 00:00
Fan noise question. (Hopefully a different question)
I read people's complaints towards loud fans while idle and etc but that's not my case. My Aurora ALX is generally quiet and I'm becoming more satisfied with the product. My problem is that maybe once every 10 minutes, even if there's no activity, the computer will rev up the fans to maximum then quickly go back to quiet mode. It's actually kind of frustrating. And when I'm playing some games, the rig is pretty much at full speed until I stop. It almost overpowers my big home theater system.
I'd love it if someone told me this wasn't normal, or possibly have a fix?
One more question as well, I use the PC as a HTPC and I have a high quality receiver with top notch cables running back and forth and my problem resides in getting sound from the PC. The fix is always to turn off and then turn on the receiver unit which truly becomes annoying. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks.
PS- All drivers are 100% up to date!
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Yodasmaster
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February 25th, 2010 02:00
My Aurora's fans only rev up when powering on. So this is not normal.
Aplar
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February 25th, 2010 06:00
When they do rev up, fire up the command center and check the temps. If they are high, that's normal. If they are low, then try going manual and setting the speed yourself to your liking.
pkjr
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February 25th, 2010 07:00
yeah.. but shouldn't that work correctly to beging with?
Cyrusis
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February 25th, 2010 10:00
So this problem doesn't happen for you guys? It's always quiet and relatively quiet during gaming?
morblore
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February 25th, 2010 17:00
My Area 51 is just like your computer. About every ten min. or so it will rev up the fans for about a min and then go back down and be quite again. When playing a game it will rev up and be very loud untill I exit the game.
I got mine on Jan. 11th. About 5 days ago I started getting a " AllienFX as stopped working" on boot ups. I would then go into the program and run it again. Reinstalls did nothing to fix this. Yesterday the Master Control Board went dead. Right now I have no lights,vents and the fans are running at 100%. My guess is the board was going up and that was the cause of the fan ramp ups every ten min.
Took Dell tech support 2 hours to say "yes" its bad and send another one. It should here tomorrow. When it's installed I will let you know if the ramp ups go away.
Cyrusis
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February 25th, 2010 18:00
Great man, thanks a lot. I would to have a quiet computer... Dell's advertising for this thing is very untrue. :(
Skydan
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February 26th, 2010 03:00
My area 51 is having a similar issue. With no games running the fan speed is very quiet, however when a game starts the system fan is contantly on 4000 rpms and very loud. I phoned Dell and they tell me this is normal behaviour, but after seeing this post I am a little worried.