Fan not work on Dell precision 3510

I have a dell precision 3510 with one fan and My fan speed is 0 rpm all the time.

sensors | grep fan
fan1: 0 RPM

Also when I use i8kmon:

temp, left fan state, right fan state, ac state: 40 -1 1 0

I follow this guide to control my fan speed Fan speed control issues on Ubuntu . However, when I:

$ make
cc -o dell-bios-fan-control dell-bios-fan-control.c
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [Makefile:6: dell-bios-fan-control] Error 127

and when I usesudo i8kctl fan 2 2 or any other speed the fan spin for one second only and then stopped.

On windows, I used a tool that overridden the bios setting after I disable the secure boot. but on Linux. I can stay for only 15 min before the laptop completely freeze.

1 Answer

sudo apt install build-essential

and everything works fine. To clarify:

first, you have to

 sudo apt install build-essential

then

git clone
cd dell-bios-fan-control
make
sudo dell-bios-fan-control 0

then

git clone
cd i8kutils
make
sudo i8kctl fan 1 1 

to make it work at lower speed and sudo i8kctl fan 2 2. If it's stopped randomly (which happens to me several times). you need to check whether one of the fans was corrupted or in my case was completely unplugged (which I don't know actually). to check you can use sudo i8kmon. The -1 means completely unplugged and 0 means not working.