Recent content by Fred

Hello Martin, I confirm that it works very well. I can now control the fans. Also I couldn't reproduce the crashes. Thanks a lot for your work!

Hello Martin, I own the new Alienware 15 R3 that comes with the Kaby Lake chipset. The fan icon is present but clicking on it doesn't bring the fan control window. Disabling the EC Support allows to control the fan values but comes with the limitations associated with DELL EC. Is there any...

Hi Martin, Thank you for your comments. As for the BIOS update, I have the latest one. Eventually I got the motherboard and the video card replaced and the problem is now gone. Indeed it seems there it is a bug in the Embedded Controller firmware logic. I could see that AIDA64 disabled their...

Hi Martin, Indeed if both fans are initially spinning clicking on System Auto will stop them. But then if the temperatures are high enough, the system will make them spin again. With that said, during my tests I had the situation where both fans were spinning and clicking on System Auto made...

Hi there, I have the same problem where the GPU fan of my Alienware m17x R3 stops spinning. This problem has been there since I purchased the computer from Dell. As explained by nutzaalex, the fan eventually stops spinning after some random amount of time. I found a way to make it spin again...