Hi,

I have just got my new Dell Inspiron 1564 with a Core i3 processor and its a very cool system for the price..

Only annoying thing is the fan cycling on and off all the time.. I have done things like turn off the transparency in the aero theme and disables windows search thinking that by having less running it would help but it doesn't..

I read that the processor settings can be changed with rmclock but it doesn't appear to work on windows 7 (x64).. Something about an unsigned driver..

I also tried the dell fan utility I8kfanGUI as well but it also didn't load properly.. Seems the latest version if from 2007..

Is there anything else I could try?

Thanks..

There could be some info about work-arounds for RMClock at the RMClock forums:

http://forum.rightmark.org/?id=6&forump ... e=&author=

or in this thread at Notebookreview.com. It's a pretty decent thread, not so much for the "Guide" itself, but for all the comments afterward:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardwar ... guide.html

Undervolting could help keep the CPU cooler and reduce the fan on/off cycle. But I doubt it would be able to completely stop it. RMClock was a great tool, but it's out of date. I did get it working in Win7 x64 once I think but it was a lot of work. And I didn't think it worked with the new ways the Core CPUs do their power management. Which is pretty impressive on it's own. I BIOS undervolted my Core i3 on a gigabyte MB and the idle power wouldn't budge. I was able to drop the load power a little. They're pretty impressive CPUs out of the box which is good but unfortunately means that there's little room to tweak it for lower power.

there's threads out there on how to get i8kfangui working on vista/win7

Maybe those will help, if they work.