I own a Alienware aurora and over the past few months every now and then when i turn on my machine the fans are really loud, to the point where it's hard to have a conversation with someone stood in the same room.
Normally after opening up the case and a few restarts it dies down and goes back to normal. So i've been cleaning it as i assumed it was dust that would cause this. It has been fine for the passed week or so then yesterday when i got home and turned it on it was back to being loud again.
So i spent about two hours last night rebooting with the side of the case off and trying to get the thermal control settings to respond to me but i had no luck so i turned it off and left it for the rest of the evening.
Now the pc itself seem to work fine, i can boot it up and log on etc and use it as i normally would. But on boot up i get cpu fan failure press f1 to continue.
So came back to it today and when turning it on it's still continuing to make this noise. So i cleaned it all out and vaced it out etc and still no joy.
Looking at the thermal controls none of my sensors are recording anything. everything is just set to 0. Now during the past two days i've seen the RPM on the fans go up very high but now everything is just on 0 and the cpu pump says failed. I've tried to change these to see if it does anything but nothing happens.
I'm torn between leaving it on to blow the dust out and get it out its system and turning it off to not do more damage.
Any suggestions would be appreciated as the pc isn't really usable when it is this loud. As i can't hear anything, even with my headphones on and it's giving me a headache to use for more than about 30 mins.