AW18 980m SLI second fan solution ?

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  1. razor0601

    razor0601 Notebook Consultant

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    So let me get this straight. I have to flash the VBios from the right card to the left card?
     
    razor0601, Oct 9, 2019
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    If it makes it easier, just flash the vBIOS I posted to both cards.
     
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    Now I flashed your linked VBios. Every Dell non Gsync and every Alienware non Gsync VBios.
    No change, the fan also stays still.
     
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    Have you tried swapping the fans, to rule out that everything is OK with the fan?
     
    senso, Oct 10, 2019
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    With hwinfo64 the fan is spinning
     
    razor0601, Oct 10, 2019
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    The curious thing is, I bought this AW18 2 years ago from TheDantee with a broken Mainboard and no GPU‘s. And it was sold Original from Dell with 980M SLI.
     
    razor0601, Oct 10, 2019
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    EC could also be faulty, Alienware 18 is such a poor platform to work with its not even worth messing with. I would dump that machine and get a M18x R2 if you want something Alienware, or some newer clevo machine.
     
    Raidriar, Oct 10, 2019
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    I only want to get it working to sell it.
     
    razor0601, Oct 10, 2019
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    One hack-ish way to make it work is to split the pwm signal wire from the working fan and connect it to the non working fan, but keep the other 3 wires connected in the header, that would make both fans work at the same RPM, but still be powered independently and still report RPM to the system as well.
     
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    Yes I know. But that’s to hackish.
    Anyone tried A14 Bios with 980M sli?
     
    razor0601, Oct 10, 2019
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