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EthanShoeDev / XPSThermalTray

XPSThermalTray is a simple system tray application for managing thermal profiles on Dell XPS laptops
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Doesn't work on my computer #3

Open mll0 opened 3 months ago

mll0 commented 3 months ago

Thanks for this software. It's the workaround I need because in "Optimized" mode the fans are very noisy even with low stress...

Anyway, I'm on a Dell Latitude 5480 (not an XPS I'm aware), and the tray app loads, but if I select "Quiet" nothing happens, end eventually, the tray icon disappears and the application silently quit.

I come from https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/comments/132gzs6/seeking_help_with_programmatic_control_of_dell/, and when I test access to ThermalManagement using the path you provided, I get:

PS C:\Windows\system32> cd dellsmbios:
PS DellSmbios:\> Get-Item .\PreEnabled\ThermalManagement
Get-Item : Attribute: 'ThermalManagement' does not exist!

Thanks

EthanShoeDev commented 3 months ago

This seems to suggest that the DellSmbios library doesn't include these thermal settings on your laptop.

I didn't do any other testing on other machines than my own so I really can't be sure how the dell package works on your machine.

I will say, I also have the ability to change thermal settings within my UEFI bios. Maybe you could try that?

In the future I will update the app to check for this case and let the user know whether or the app will work (instead of silently erroring)

Thank you for the report!

mll0 commented 3 months ago

Yes, I guess your'e right. And no option on the UEFI BIOS, on which I peeled my eyes. The Dell Command Power Manager app seems to use another mysterious setting.