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husamjumaa

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March 19th, 2005 18:00

BIOS PROBLEM! HELP

I downloaded the bewest version of dell's bios (i think its A 32?). anyways its really good in terms of controlling the fan cycle (on-off) however whenever my pc goes to standby and I wake it up again the fan is always on.... i have to turn the pc off (restart is not enough) then turn it on to have the fan resume a normal on-off cycle. any reason? any solution? thank you!

NemesisDB

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March 20th, 2005 01:00

it's a bug that has been popping up in a bunch of inspiron bioses.  pressing FN Z may work.

that said, a lot of people don't like A32 because it turns the fans off more and makes the i5100 run hotter than usual

husamjumaa

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March 20th, 2005 05:00

does anyone know if dell plans to fix it..? im tired of restarting!

NemesisDB

7.9K Posts

March 20th, 2005 06:00

maybe ...  if you don't want it, you can try FN Z.  you can try a program like fanGUI.  or you can do what most people do and use A31

husamjumaa

9 Posts

March 20th, 2005 14:00

how do you go back a bios virsion?

NemesisDB

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March 20th, 2005 17:00

you should be able to flash to A31 the same way you went to A32

husamjumaa

9 Posts

March 20th, 2005 20:00

Thank you for all the help. i dont know if i will go back on bios, 32 works much better than 31 with me in terms of controlling the fan. before that it was almost always on if i start a program like windows media player. but thanks for the suggestion. your help is much appreciated

NemesisDB

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March 20th, 2005 22:00

that is true ... with anything below A32, then fan will always be on at least slow speed

kmcglamery

14 Posts

March 31st, 2005 14:00

I just upgraded to A32(on inspiron 1100) and now the machine turns itself off after about 5 seconds after a cold boot. Warm boots after the flash were fine and I used the machine for several hours with no problems.

Flashed from A21 because upgrading from 640M to 1G RAM made some flaky video problems.

This is a refurb machine that the service tag sticker(which was not on very well to begin with) fell off a few months ago. Now I can't get the service tag until after I get into the BIOS.

Inspiron 1100 P4-2.2Ghz - All hardware original except the replacement of RAM from 2-128's to 2-512's

kmcglamery

14 Posts

March 31st, 2005 14:00

I'm also finding elsewhere on this board that you should flash to A22 before going to anything higher. Is this true?
 
Also I see people mention FN Z. What is that? That a way to get into a frozen machine's BIOS?
 
Thanks

NemesisDB

7.9K Posts

March 31st, 2005 17:00

it may be completely unrelated

husamjumaa

9 Posts

March 31st, 2005 17:00

By the way... how come FN Z doesnt work with me (see if i got this right.. hit function and z keys together?)
thankls
 

NemesisDB

7.9K Posts

March 31st, 2005 17:00

it's not the cause of your problem ... the flash simply will fail to execute.  if it worked, then it worked

kmcglamery

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March 31st, 2005 17:00

I see what you mean the flash itself isn't the problem, it's the code that was flashed. Doesn't make sense though, because I did 1 cold boot after I installed the 2nd 512 dimm and it came up. After that it ran for hours till I tried another cold boot the next morning.

NemesisDB

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March 31st, 2005 17:00

generally speaking, if you're not already at A22 (perhaps A21 as well), then flash to something higher won't run.

FN Z resets the fan profile

kmcglamery

14 Posts

March 31st, 2005 17:00

Well I would have flashed to 22 before going to 32 HAD IT BEEN DOCUMENTED!

You hear that DELL Techs??? How is this going to get fixed??

Thanks Nemesis.

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