10-09-2009, 08:51 PM
(10-09-2009, 08:10 PM)Extasey Wrote: Is the fan connected to the board?
You could buy an after market cooling system (air or water-cooling).
Most of these systems brag about the effectiveness as well as being "as quiet as a whisper".
To quieten the current fan, there is usually a RPM setting in the BIOS, but unfortunately they reset after reboot! You may be able to fix this once you install an operating system and get a program from nvidia or something to control your fan speed.
About the CMOS clip, sorry, I don't want to suggest something that could break your system (I'm too in-experience) but you could try tape it on with duc tape, haha.
Yes the fan connects directly to the motherboard and it is a side-ways blowing fan, not the usual upwards blowing type. It's also very small, something like 1-1.5 inches and probably no more than 4-6mm in height.
Dell L400 is a tiny little laptop, so water cooling isn't going to be an option. I suppose I could try to find a similarly sized fan and try to file it down to fit. I was wondering if anyone knew if you could oil it at all.
The connector pins are tiny, maybe duc-tape but i'd think that the adhesive would not be a good addition to the motherboard.