Questions tagged [fan]
Fans are the primary cooling devices used in most types of computers and are typically installed in the case and in the power supply of desktop machines and are also often installed directly on the CPU or GPU.
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CISCO UCSC-C220-M4S loud fan, power profile not respected
I recently purchased a used Cisco UCSC-C220-M4S at a reasonable price, which included a Tesla GPU. However, I discovered that the GPU model is not officially supported. Although it can still be ...
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Laptop fan runs in sleeping mode: Can anyone teach me how to set up my power plan?
My laptop fan never runs when on battery supply. But if I plug in power, then it will run sometimes. But when I leave laptop a few minutes without action, it will run loudly, and I know it has ...
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Loud whistle noise from aio fans under load
When under load such as when doing demanding tasks on my pc, my aio (Corsair H100x) fans make a really loud whistling noise.
my CPU temps are still very good though, around sub 70 degrees celsius. ...
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Is there a way to Manually Control Fan Speed for my HP Pavilion Gaming 15 ec2xxx?
I've a HP Pavilion Gaming 15 ec2xxx with an AMD Ryzen 5600H and a GTX 1650 GDDR6.
I'd like to manually control my fan speed but I can't find anything working.
I tried with Notebookfancontroller but ...
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What lubricants can be safely added to a laptop fan?
I've got a fan in a laptop that occasionally makes some loud airplane-like noises. It mostly happens about 10 seconds after booting up and lasts for 10-20 seconds.
It also occasionally happens when ...
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Why does a 4 year old Lenovo Thinkpad laptop suddenly start to violently vibrate?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop about 4 year old. While using it, it suddenly starts to make noises and vibrate violently.
We thought the issue was with the fan so we had the fan removed, cleaned and ...
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GPU's fan starts spinning then restart every few second or so
I own a Nvidia GTX 960 mini. The GPU is working as expected but the fan is doing a strange thing. Every few seconds or so, the fan runs then restart. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Looping constantly. Here ...
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Can I use my laptop without an internal fan, but tape a fan from another laptop to the exhaust vent?
Can I use a fan from another laptop taped to the exhaust vent to compensate for the removed fan in my laptop? My laptop is HP Elitebook 8440p.
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CPU fan restarts after power and PC not booting to bios
I've browsed for other similar threads and I haven't got my desired answer because symptoms were different in a way, though I still tried the suggested actions for troubleshooting, still haven't ...
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WHat happens if I cut the blue wire in my laptop's fan?
I'm just wondering. I have black, red, yellow, and blue wires on my fan. Will the fan turn off? Will the fan go nuts?
EDIT: The red and black are the power wires.
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Is my fan running constantly dangerous?
My CPU can be at 2% with a CPU temperature of 30° and the fan is still running. The fan speed is usually between 1700 and 1800 (1800 is shown at max fan speed). My laptop is only a few months old and ...
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Will I benefit from adding top fans to this PC, and if so how should I configure them? [closed]
My PC has only the basic 2 front intake fans and 1 rear exhaust fan. There are space for 2 more at the top and I'm considering whether it's worth installing more fans when I upgrade to some hotter ...
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USB powered laptop cooling pad: fans are not working when plugged onto AC via adapter
Recently i bought a cooling pad for my laptop.
Pretty good, works just fine and has a nice blue light when it is connected to the power source (connected to the laptop).
It has two USB 2.0 ports. On ...
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Setting coolbits on KDE Neon 5.27 goes wrong
I'm trying to set my KDE Neon 5.27's coolbits to 8 in order to gain manual fan control access using Green With Envy. Otherwise my laptop's fans are constantly firing loud even at stupidly low ...
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How to reset power settings on Windows 11?
On my company Lenovo L13 (i5-1145G7 2.60GHz, 16GB), the fan never stops, even when CPU temperature is just at 41C.
It's been MONTHS of non-stop fan, nobody knows what is going on, I am getting mad.
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Will using a bicycle pump to clean my laptop damage it?
I have a Lenovo G580 laptop. Unfortunately, there is no way to access the fan even after opening maintenance hatch, so I have no real way of removing dust from the cooling vents without using some ...
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NVIDIA GPU fan error when card is idle for a while
I have a supermicro server with 7 NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs and one L40 GPU. The OS is Ubuntu 22.04. Everything works fine, I can run jobs for serveral days without problems. However, there is a very ...
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GPU fan replacement (case fans)
I'm looking to replace a GPU fan shroud with two 120mm case fans due to recent fan failure.
What interests me is:
Are two 1000 RPM fans enough or should I use higher RPM fans?
What would it possibly ...
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Can I wire an 8pin double case fan into 2 x 4pin fan headers, or USB?
I have 2 x Delta 92x38mm EFB0912HHE Triple Blade High Speed Case Fan - Sleeved, which both have 4 wires which are spliced into an 8-pin connector, but only using 6 of the pins (2 are sharing 2 wires ...
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How to silence very loud stock Wraith Prism cooler?
I have a PC setup with an AMD 2700X Ryzen CPU with its stock Wraith Prism CPU cooler on a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC.
My issue is the cooler is very loud as it appears to run at full throttle even ...
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SpeedFan suddenly stops being able to detect controllers and sensors mid game
so I'm playing games on my PC and I have some fan control setup using SpeedFan for my PWM fans which usually works really nice. However, the other day my game wasn't running so smoothly and I saw that ...
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ACER ASPIRE V3-571G-9435 Fan not kicking in leading to overclocking
This laptop has always had this problem. The temperatures kick up to the thermal ceiling of 99 °C for the CPU (i7-3610QM) and 94 °C for the GPU (GT 640M). Problem is, the FAN doesn't give a damn. It's ...
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PC suddenly not turning on. Fan is super noisy and fast. Screen not turning on too
I just left for a few hours and when I get home, my PC is not turning on anymore. It’s a HP Compaq dc7800p running Windows 7.
I’ve never experienced a problem with this PC before because its kinda ...
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Noisy CPU Fan in Linux Mint
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows 8.1. The CPU fan is quiet when I use Windows. I installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon on another partition, but the fan is noisy all the time when I use Linux ...
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How to check if the wires from a 2-pin fan connector are swapped?
I have a 120mm 2-pin fan from an old power supply that I wish to use as a case fan and the closest fan model I can find that matches my fan in appearance is this; however, the color of the wires in ...
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Laptop fan stopped working, but spins for one second after turning off PC
I have Dell Latitude 5840. Yesterday I pressed "o" on the keyboard to hard. I heard some scratching sound and then silence. Basicaly my fan stopped working. I tired some monitoring software ...
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0 RPM Fan speed (monitoring) but the fans are spinning
I would like to troubleshoot an issue that I came across. I recently checked "Armoury Crate" and saw that I have 0 fan rpms although the fans are spinning.
Seems like a lot of people have ...
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How can I determine the correct hex address for a laptop fan control?
I have an HP Envy X360 (Model eu0043dx) with an AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU. I have installed NBFC which is a fan control program. I need to configure NBFC with the correct fan control address for the ...
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HP DL360e gen8 - fans rev at 100% at all times
I want to install proxmox on this machine To do this, I need to disable the b320i raid controller (disks are not detected during installation), but when I did this, the fans start working at 100% all ...
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Can I run my CPU at 100% usage for a long time?
I have a Dell XPS 15 9570, 32 GB ram, 2.2 ghz and 6 cores. When i use an application (The parsim command on MATLAB) (for more details) then my fan starts running fast , during this my PC doesn't seem ...
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What is this noise on my computer
I recently have a strange noise coming from my laptop, I believe it's the fan so I opened and cleaned them but the noise remain.
What is weird is that it doesn't always make sound.
I was wondering if ...
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Blackscreen with GPU fans at max speed
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During some games, after 2-20 Minutes a black screen appears
CS2, CS:GO, Anno 1800 suffer from blackscreen
Did not get a single black screen playing hours of COD
Sound is still playing in ...
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Can a fanless mini-pc be turned on all day long?
This is a technical question and I'm looking for a technical answer. I'm trying to determine whether a fanless mini-pc would handle being run as a headless system, running typical usage (like Skype, ...
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What s the name of that 6 pin fan connector?
I m having a special system fan type in my computer which is very noisy (between 60 to 75 Db with vendor provided fans). But if nothing is plugged on it the computer refuse to run.
Here a what the ...
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MacBook Air fans on 100% with Boot Camp running Windows 10
I installed Windows 10 via Bootcamp on my 2015 MacBook Air and it doesn't seem to include a cooling management: the fan is running on 6500 rpm (100%) all the time, even when the CPU is below 10% usage....
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Cpu overheating and bios cpu fan error
I have an i5 2550k a p8z68 mobo, and a Corsair h100 liquid cooler.
As of last night the CPU started throttling and I guess overheating after 4 years no issues. Whatever, i tried reapplying new TIM/...
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Intel NUC 11 (or newer) overheating
I have an intel NUC11TNHi7, overheating for no apparent reasons. CPU's temperature reaches 75++°C just on idle.
I found a similar question about NUC7 overheating but it appears that the best answer (...
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How to control the fan speed on compact desktop HP Elite 8200 SFF?
I have some HP Elite 8200 SFF desktops that I plan to refurbish.
These have two fans, one for the PSU and one for the CPU, which are quite loudy, as spinning at quite high speed and without ...
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Fans not working on Asus X555LJ
as of yesterday or so my laptop's fans stopped working with no apparent reason.
This is what appears on SpeedFan:
Open Hardware Monitor:
I also have an error on SpeedFan that I don't know the ...
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How to set up a specific video card to be used by default in Windows?
I have two video cards in this laptop:
Name: "Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630"
DedicatedVideoMemory: 128.00 MB
SharedSystemMemory: 24500.85 MB
Name: "NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 with Max-Q Design&...
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How to get rid of the coolant fan noise in NVR
Hi I'm using the following NVR
https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Network-Recorders/Lite-Series/NVR4/L-Series/1HDD/NVR4108HS-4KS2/L
But the fan is really noisy enough to disturb the ...
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Minisforum Mini PC - CPU fan starting to become loud
The unit is Minisforum DeskMini HM80, CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800U , 8 Cores/16 Threads.
So the CPU fan is becoming quite loud, depending on the temperature. Measured temperature while in BIOS is 61C.
Is ...
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HP EliteBook 8470p running extremely hot
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I've been using this HP EliteBook 8470p for well over a year - it has an I7 proc with 8gb of RAM and before ever turning it on, I swapped out the HD with a 512gb SSD.
I was ...
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Why do my fans spin loudly after a Windows OS restart?
Correct behavior: When I start my PC, the PC fans are almost immediately set to very quiet by the Gigabyte BIOS ("Smart Fan 6" feature). And once Windows starts, they're correctly controlled ...
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Laptop Windows 10 noisy fan constantly running
I have been having an issue with my Laptop fan constantly running @ high speed creating an unbearable noise that is making it hard to work.
My processor is almost at idle when this happens only ...
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My PC is making a weird clicking noise
Today I cleaned my PC and after that I recognized a weird clicking/ticking noise. It's not really loud and it seems to come from the area around my GPU. It sounds like a fan slightly hitting something,...
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How to test laptop fan that doesn't start?
I have this old but still good laptop MSI gs60 2PE and the fans stop working. One simply didn't work anymore and the other started making horrible noise.
I bought new ones, plug them. But nothing ...
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How to overcome "System fan (90B)" error during startup on HP 240 G8
About a half year ago we bought dozen laptops HP 240 G8. Recently 3 of them, sometimes, started to show "System fan (90B)" error during startup. If i choose boot, the fan spins with full ...
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All fans in PC run except one case fan, PC turns on and off in a loop
I have 3 case fans, 2 of which are connected to the psu while the third is connected to the CPU_FAN on the motherboard. All of the fans plus CPU and GPU fans run fine except for the third case fan. ...
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What are the fan dimensions for EATON 5E 2000I USB UPS 2000VA/1200W
I would like to replace the fan because it's too noisy but I'm not sure what the dimensions are. It looks like a 50mm fan and I'm trying to find an accurate datasheet for the UPS or a service manual ...
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