The fan on my Dell Inspiron 9200 was making a lot of noise. Here’s how I fixed this problem.
I have a dell inspiron 9200 and about a month ago, when I turned my PC on, the fan (not hard drive) started making this huge noise and the whole computer slowed down. After taking the whole thing apart (I was so proud cos I’d never done that before…I did desktops but never my precious one and only laptop!)….and having cleaned the fans completely, the noise still persisted. I tried doing everything from windows too but nothing helped.
I found an online forum like this and it was such a simple stupid solution…….You can make your fan go at a higher speed if u find ur laptop over heating by pressing Fn+z (Keep Fn pressed and then hit z). Do the same to slow it down.
This solution is for a Dell /any machine which has a Fn key. So try it out. If you are lucky like me, it was a error on my part. I play PC games so Fn is right next to control (shoot) and next to Z (lie-down/crouch) for my FPS! So I must have hit that combination in terror when a monster jumped out at me or something.
January 16th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
wow that works for me… inspiron 1525… but does it affect the cooling system?? will laptop be overheated ? thanks again
April 13th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
thnks, it solved my problem
March 27th, 2011 at 5:54 am
Many thanks for the fix. It worked on my wife’s Inspiron 9300. That is a truly annoying sound…LOL
February 1st, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Thanks! Worked like a charm on my Inspiron 1721! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
November 16th, 2010 at 4:58 am
I have a dell Inspiron 9400.. and IT WORKED !!!!!!!! thanks buddy.
November 4th, 2010 at 8:54 am
I used the Fn+z tip and the sound went away; however, after about 10 seconds the sound came back… any advice? I have a Dell Latitude D610.
Great topic by the way
September 13th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
thnks for the suggestion the sound has decreased….
July 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
genious! after pressing Fn+z, the fan stopped the noise and i can now watch youtube videos on my inspiron 9400, thanks alot!
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Hi Guys,
This website is great!
I have a dell Inspiron 9300 Core2 2.0GHz, 2 gig RAM, 256mb NVIDIA Geforce 7900GS, with a 160 gig HD.
The computer still works and turns on normally and I can do normal work things with it but I cant play games properly. When I do play games the frame rate is very low.
I found out that there are 2 fans on the this laptop. When looking from the top of the computer, like you would be working on it, the left fan is for the video card and the right for the CPU.
The CPU fan still works, and I downloaded a program that forces all the fans to work at thier maximum. That did make the CPU fan work hard but the video fan didnt budge.
So I thought that the GPU is overheating and that the low framerate is protecting GPU from damaging itself.
Now the problem that I have is that I need to find replacement fans, I’ll replace both fans, and then I need directins on opening and replacing the fans.
Thanks so much!
John
March 25th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
HELP PLEASE!!
My Dell insprion 1525 is making a funny noise with the fan i do use it alot and i had it turned off over night thinking the noise would go away the next day..well it didnt! Please help i dont know what to do! The fan is loud and then a noise comes on and off
Thanks!1
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
lol…n i was about to install my laptop ont he ceiling !
January 2nd, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Thanks! fn key + z stopped the fan noise on my dell !
December 15th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
SiSi and others with a Dell XPS M1330:
My wife’s M1330, like many, maybe most/all, runs hot due to inadequate video card cooling. If your video card fan is going bonkers trying to keep things cool, try a notebook cooler pad to put the M1330 on. The first and cheapest pad we found at Fry’s knocked down the temperature by 15-20 degrees. So now the pad is noisy and the M1330 is quiet. Oh well . . .
December 7th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
you’re my hero! I really did not believe this would work! cheers!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Yup. Worked on my Dell Inspiron 2200. Thanx!
October 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I have an Inspiron 9100 and have bought new desk top to replace it at work as the speed had become such a problem and I gave up on resolving problem after I had tried everything and also the IT guy at work couldn’t fix it.
Well tonight I dug it out for another try whilst watching Taken (great film by the way) and after reading this article I cannot believe I have fix the problem so quickly and easily, I am sure gameplay keys in Battlefield 2 was to blame.
Thank you so much!
October 26th, 2009 at 11:35 am
thanks
it worked on my dell inspiron 6400 [30 months old]
October 6th, 2009 at 9:57 am
hey i tried the fn combination..but it didnt work for me..i have dell 1420 and my fan is making lot of noise
September 25th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Great advice.. it worked on my dell inspiron 9300!
September 10th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Thank you for sharing the Fn z. Only the noise will go back after a while. My Dell laptop is only 9 months old. I cannot see dust from outside. Do I have to open up the laptop and check for dust?
August 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
It worked for me, and my inspiron 9100. Thanks.
August 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hi, I’ve been trying desperately to find out what is wrong with my laptop all of a sudden and no one seems to know the answer! Just a month ago, my laptop fan started making a lot of noise, and blowing out a lot of air – like it’s overworking.
I tried pressing FN+z but it didnt work on my lap top. I have a Dell XPS M1330.
I’d be so grateful if someone can help me fix this! I’m reluctant to use my lap top now because the noise is so annoying
Thanks in Advance,
SiSi
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 am
OK this works good and well but what do you do when you want to speed the fan back up?
April 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I tried what you’ve posted. Though I don’t know if I have the same problem as you. I don’t even know when I’m pressing fn+z if it’s even changing the speed of my fan lol. My issue is a little bit different. Though I’ve been told by many people that they think it’s my harddrive I think it’s a little bit different. I own a DELL Inspiron 1501. It’s about a year and 5 months old. There at first it was used constantly 24/7 even left on a few days in a row for downloading, which is why I think it’s a fan problem. But anymore my laptop HAS to be on a flat surface, and I mean FLAT. It can’t be tilted what so ever in a weird way or else the left side of my laptop, where the fan is swirls and whirls at a high speed, and blows more air then usual. Usually the only way I can fix this is if I put my computer into sleep mode or shut it down which totally stops everything, and I sit and wait a few moments before turning it back on.
Now if I’m just sitting here, and have the laptop laying on a flat surface it’s fine, I have no problems with it at all. But if I tilt it my computer just starts to vibrate and where the fans at makes a weird grinding noise and more air ends up pushing out from the vent hole.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Just a reminder also
CHECK YOUR FANS AND SCREENS
I had a good friend who was complaining about his ‘NOISY’ Dell computer. When I dropped by to look at it for him I was shocked, not really I have seen way worse it just sounds funny, his computer was full of crap and dust. So a little compressed air, with a ground strap on of course, and 20 minutes later that DELL was as quiet as a church mouse.