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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How can I reduce the fan noise on my LG Gram Pro 17 laptop?
When I got my LG Gram Pro 17 (2024, Intel Core Ultra 155H, RTX3050) the fans were extremely loud because the laptop was constantly overheating (and thermal throttling). Even putting the Fan on maximum ...
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Laptop fan makes rattling noise (see video)
My ASUS Vivobook pro 15 fan (one of two, the right one) starts making rattling noise after 40-60 minutes of use under above average load (https://streamable.com/q5fv75). Shaking and rotating the ...
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No display on XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 8GB
I recently decided to undertake the task of building my own PC. All my other parts work, but the gpu fans spin and then turn off. Nothing appears on my display either. Is it because I do not have any ...
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Fan not spinning automatically, spins on manual push, laptop overheating (HP Probook 6450b on Windows 10)
I have an HP Probook 6450b Laptop that gets hot. I tried replacing the thermal paste, but it's still very hot. Then, I left for almost a year. Some days ago, I picked it up and then tried a new ...
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New CPU BIOS error - fan seems ok (takes some time to spin up)
I've had my desktop machine for a few years now but very recently have started getting a CPU fan error on bios startup (Asus motherboard).
When entering the BIOS the fan is a sometimes a little under ...
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What is involved for the BIOS to populate the ACPI tables in terms of system fans?
i recently had to flash my bios with a programmer using basically a blank bios firmware update that didnt contain any of my laptop’s info. it went successfully but one of the problems i still have is ...
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Fans keep spinning up after BIOS update despite no activity
I'm in the process of updating my CPU from an 1800X to a 3700x, and in order to be able to do so, I've needed to update my BIOS in a multi-step process, as follows:
Updates BIOS to P3.50
Installed ...
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PSU Won’t Start with Fans Connected on Gigabyte MC12-LE0 Motherboard with Seasonic SS-400H2U PSU
I’m in the process of building my homelab server but have run into a snag while trying to boot the integrated IPMI using my Seasonic SS-400H2U Active PFC PSU. The fans spin briefly, but the IPMI ...
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Why is my MacBook Pro 2013 (15") new replacement fan noisy?
I just installed a new fan in my MacBook Pro (15" late 2013) and it’s significantly louder than the old one.
The new one is on the left, and the old one is on the right, the left one wore out (...
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Can faulty cpu fan cause boot issues
I have Gigabyte H110M-S2 motherboard which supports Intel 6th and 7th generation processors.
I have:
Intel i3 - 6100 processor.
And 8GB of RAM
And I am using stock cooler as CPU cooler and it has ...
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Why is my laptop fan spinning loudly even when CPU is cool?
I own an HP Pavilion x360 on Windows 10, and when I powered it on this morning, the fan sounded like a jet engine. I figured it just needed to be rebooted, but when I restarted my PC, it still sounded ...
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Fan speed dropping in turbo mode ROG Zephyrus M16 GU603HM
I'm using ghelper instead of armoury crate since it has been severely lagging my laptop recently (high in private byte according to process hacker). However I've been running into problem that fan ...
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PC switches on and off in a loop and some fans won't work
My electric recently got turned off and my PC wouldn't turn on and now all of sudden it does and everything looks fine but my CPU fan won't turn on and my PC switches off and immediately back on every ...
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Stop fan from always/often running on Asus VivoBook, Arch Linux
I recently got an ASUS VivoBook Pro 15 OLED for college, and installed Arch Linux on it (this was my first experience outside of Ubuntu).
It's mostly worked fine - I've got KDE Plasma installed, and I ...
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LED lights on PC case one day started to cycle faster, then now they stopped working
I have an Aureox PC case, it has like a bar on front that cycle RGB lights, then a fan cooler on the back with the same lights but with a circular pattern. One day I noticed that the frequency at ...
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Are there any signs that the laptop fan is broken during use?
If the fan of a laptop using the Windows operating system suddenly breaks while the laptop is operating, will the user be able to realize it? Will there be a notification from Windows or anything?
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MSI laptop started stinking
My MSI MS-16P7 gaming laptop from 2018 started reeking of cigarettes weeks after upgrading it from 16 to 64 GB RAM, 256 GB to 1TB NVME, and 1TB HDD to 2TB SSD. I notice there are brown patches on the ...
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Temperature vs Power has strong positive correlation
So, I just bought super high RPM fan for my laptop, it's worked fine, it reduced temperature.
I noticed multivariate time series real time graph between temperature and power that they have similarity ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CPU fan makes strong noise when opening directories, small programs (like web browser) and when taking the computer out of sleep mode
I have a desktop PC with the CPU Intel I7-12700F, the CPU fan Zalman CNPS10X extreme, and Windows 11.
In general the CPU fan is quiet and I don't hear it, but in these occasions I do hear strong noise:...
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Are Nettops silent (fanless)?
As Nettops are close, non-modular products, image evidence is lacking and from a bit of reading I got unclear data. Some models are clearly described as "fanless" but I can't generalize for ...
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High fan speed when touching the left underside of my laptop
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When i touch the left underside of the laptop the fan speed goes up drastically
Other than in this situation, the fans almost never spin up (unless i run something like a 3d game or do heavy ...
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What happens if I used this internal fan with broken blade?
This is the fan of HP 15-da1xxx laptop with broken blade, what happens if I continue using it? P.S:The fan was already making cracking noise and car engine sound before the breakage of the blade, it ...
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How to sync AIO cooler to fan to motherboard
I am pretty new to hardware and I’m currently trying to connect my AIO cooler with my other fans to the motherboard but unfortunately when I tried to change the RGB color, the fans and the cooler are ...
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CPU running at 100 degrees is my CPU overclocked?
I bought a pre-built PC a couple of months ago. It's working well, but the fans can get very loud. Because of this, I thought I'd check the temperature using the Predator Sense bloat ware that came ...
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HP Laptop Fan bursts and then stops, trying to start but immediately puffing to an end
I have a hp pavillion dv6-7063sa bought in 2012 running windows 10 professional, so quite old now but running on an SSD so I get by.
I've recently had an issue where the fan spins to max speed after a ...
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replaced bot laptop fans but will not post
Tried replacing my laptop fans (both cpu and gpu), after install laptop wont POST.
troubleshooting done:
removed battery
reset CMOS
reseat fans
all done with both new fans installed and each fans ...
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Can I replace the larger fan in My Zotac NEN Steam Machine (ZBOX SN970)?
Context: I used to build/upgrade my own desktop computers, so I'm fairly comfortable inside a case, but haven't worked in a pre-built "mini" computer before.
I have an old Zotac NEN Steam ...
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Can't import opvn file & fan Issue
I am using Fedora 37 and it was succesful installation no errors at all but all of the sudden.
I hear my laptop making weird fan noises like it goes so fast then it return like normal. I don't see any ...
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