I've got an older Dell XPS Gen 3 that uses 3 PWM fans. An intake and exhaust on the back pannel, and the third on the side in a duct to cool the pci area. The internal case temp hovers around 56C wile gaming. I'd like to do something to get the fans to do more than just run at an idle. I've tryed looking in the bios [version A07 (01/15/05)] but could only find an option to go into a power saving mode, which is not turned on. Are their any other options to over ride the fans with out having it throw a " fan failure" error on start up.
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PWM fans
- Thread starter Nora
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Dust is not the prob, I regularly blow it out, and use intake filters. I've also made sure to have good wire manigment to not hinder air flow. My question is, are their any ways to over ride the fan speed controles that are used by the bios. When I start it up, all fans run at high for about 3 seconds and then go to an idle. I'd like to have the case fans at 100% wile gaming. How can this be done?