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AaronKelley / DellFanManagement

A suite of tools for managing the fans in many Dell laptops.
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Inspiron 7559 - EC always regains control after a few seconds #21

Open mogzol opened 2 years ago

mogzol commented 2 years ago

Basically what the title says, I have an Inspiron 7559 and the tool does work, I can use it to disable the EC and manually control the fans, but only for a few seconds. After that, the EC seems to regain control and the fans start automatically adjusting again. It's unfortunate because DellFanKeepAlive is exactly what I have been looking for, but because of this bug I can't use it with my laptop. I have tried both the regular and -alt versions of the ec-disable command for DellFanCmd, both exhibit this same behaviour.

Any help would be appreciated.

Also, unrelated, but with the NotebookReview forums shut down, is there anywhere else to discuss this tool? The forum post had a lot of useful information on it.

AaronKelley commented 2 years ago

NotebookReview users have moved over to EFGXT (temporary name) and there is a thread. I swamped with other stuff lately but sometime soon I will update this post with more documentation and also update the GitHub readme with a new link.

https://efgxt.net/topic/20-dell-fan-management-%E2%80%94-software-for-controlling-the-dell-laptop-fan-speed/

Dwedit commented 2 years ago

On my PC (7559), it works exactly as intended, and the EC does not take over on its own.

Are you running any other software that talks to the EC, or preinstalled Dell software?

mogzol commented 2 years ago

No Dell software or anything else that would talk with the EC installed. I have installed the latest BIOS, maybe that's what's different?