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Demonicus

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  1. Anybody know? It seems like a shame to retire this laptop to the junk pile because the fan won't operate at normal speeds. Anyone want to buy a GT70 with a fried GTX 675M?
  2. What if we want to yank the Nvidia card out and just use the Intel HD4000? Is there a way to keep the cooling fan from running at 100% speed?
  3. Tried this last night and the fan still blows 100%. I think that an unlocked BIOS might be our only hope.
  4. Ugh! Similar problem here. GTX 675M that died and now fan spins up to full speed. There has to be a way to get the fan to behave normally without a fancy GPU card in it. The laptop will do everything I need it to do (less gaming) with the Intel HD4000 graphics. I just need to get that fan controller to look only at the CPU temps, not the "missing" GPU temp from the fried 675M. Any ideas? What about the unlocked BIOS's for the GT70? Is there an unlocked setting that might allow us to fix the fan speed?
  5. Any update on this? I think my GTX 675M is doing the same thing. It crashed hard, generated a BSOD, strange sound, then reboot. Windows did not detect the card after reboot. I pulled it out, reapplied thermal paste, reinstalled, and it detected the card, but it would crash whenever firing up a game. I disabled the Nvidia card in Win Device Manager but now the cooling fan comes on full blast. I really just want to use the Intel HD graphics and forget about the Nvidia card. My 5yo daughter can inherit this machine and use it to surf for My Little Pony videos on YouTube. But I need to figure out how to get the fan to operate normally. That sucker is LOUD when it is running at full speed!
  6. Hello all, I'm new here. The GTX 675M in my GT70 puked about two weeks ago. Just like most failures, everything was working just fine, and then it just stopped working. Got a nice BSOD followed almost instantly by a reboot. It didn't take long to figure out that the card had died. The card was no longer showing up in Windows Device Manager. I pulled the card out, cleaned off the factory-applied thermal paste, and correctly applied new paste. Reinstalled and was still no-go. It was too late - card was fried. However, after several reboots it did once again show up in Device Manager. But the machine would crash as soon as any graphics acceleration was used. Gaming on the machine is out of the question. I am building a gaming desktop PC right now, so I really don't need gaming performance out of this machine. My daughter would be very happy to inherit it for simple things like web surfing. So here is my dilemma: For my intents and purposes, the Intel HD graphics processor will be good enough for us. However, even after disabling the Nvidia card in Device Manager, I am plagued by the cooling fan spinning up to full speed soon after the machine boots. The laptop is going into panic mode because it isn't communicating with the Nvidia card. The graphics look fine with the Intel HD processor, but the fan spinning up to full speed is a deal breaker. I read on a different forum that an unlocked BIOS will enable a setting that allows us to force the machine to ignore the Nvidia card, thereby allowing the cooling fan to operate normally. Does anyone here have any insight into this problem or maybe some recommendations for me? I am not going to purchase another GPU for this machine. They are just too expensive and there is no reason why it wouldn't just fry another one. TLDR: graphics card died. fan now comes on full-blast. don't want to replace gpu. plan on using Intel HD graphics. how do I return the fan to normal operation? Thanks in advance!
  7. It's been a couple months since you posted, so I'm not really expecting a reply from you (maybe from someone else though), but I zeroed-in on something you mentioned in your post, and I wonder if anyone can clarify it for me. You mention that the power light changes colors from white to orange. Well my GTX 675M card died in my GT70 0ND about two weeks ago. I've been trying to use just the onboard Intel HD graphics chip, but the darn fan comes on full-blast. I'm looking to get an unlocked BIOS to hopefully fix that problem (at least keep the fan from freaking out). So why does the power light change colors? Of what significance is it? I notice that mine starts out white and then almost immediately switches to orange, and I think it did that even when my Nvidia card was working.
  8. I know that the OP doesn't support this thread anymore, but I really need to get some help with my GT70 0ND. I've spent too much time already looking for a way to fix my problem and the only thing that looks promising is to unlock the BIOS in order to access a particular setting. The GTX 675M card in the laptop fried itself two weeks ago. It still shows up in Windows Device Manager (sometimes) but I went ahead and disabled it so the OS would not try to use it. I am good with it just running off the Intel HD graphics, but the damn fan starts blowing full-blast after the machine has been on for a couple minutes. I read elsewhere that there is a setting in the BIOS to force the hardware to only use the Intel HD graphics, basically telling the machine that there is no Nvidia hardware installed. It would then stop turning on the fan full-blast when it failed to "communicate" with the GTX 675M. Would the unlocked BIOS for the GT70 with a 3rd Generation i7 unlock the setting I need? Does anyone know exactly what that setting is and what it may be called? Thanks in advance!
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