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Is it normal for a Dell Inspiron 530 to have is fan to spin up 3 times before it POSTS?
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Mar 15, 20264824 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I picked up an used Dell 530 desktop. It seems to work, but it has an odd pattern of powering up the case fan (which might be faulty - it sounds like a jet engine) 3 times, while blinking the power light. No other fan seems to activate during the time, and it goes silent after that. I'm wondering, …
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Fix for: Is it normal for a Dell Inspiron 530 to have is fan to spin up 3 times before it POSTS?
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While there have been answers to the part about the garbled screen, apparently the video card on the inspiron 530 (and the vostro 4000) - a gforce 8300GS is buggy, and the 3x power up attempts is fairly common with this model/configuration. Apparent…
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