We told you recently about nVidia’s chip problems that caused Dell to issue a BIOS update to deal with the potentially dangerous problem. HP also had to join Dell in issuing BIOS updates as they had notebooks in customer’s hands with the defective chips. Making matter worse (or fanning the flames if you will) today comes word that the BIOS fixes just force the notebooks’ internal fans to run on high all the time. I guess the feeling is the defective chips run too hot so Dell and HP have fixes that simply keep the fan running. Now, don’t even imagine what this will do for generating unbearable noise not to mention how that would hammer battery life. As if this whole situation wasn’t bad enough HP has made it clear that customers who apply the BIOS update and then want to roll it back due to the issues I’ve mentioned cannot do so. Once you apply the "fix" that jams the fan on you’re stuck with it for perpetuity. Or at least until the fan wears out.
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