Took an update last night. This morning, fan won't shut off. CPU is only using 3% of power. Now I have to go look for fixes. Hope you are having a better day than me...
DougO wrote: ↑
Took an update last night. This morning, fan won't shut off. CPU is only using 3% of power. Now I have to go look for fixes. Hope you are having a better day than me...
alpovs wrote: ↑
Which fan? Why should it shut off? If you can see the CPU usage your computer is working. What the problem then?
It's running constantly and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. There is no way to cycle it down and it wasn't doing this BEFORE the update. Good way to burn out a moving part by having it run continuously until it fails...
Tried a bunch of fixes like altering the power settings but those don't work. Reinstalling the motherboard bios was one I haven't tried yet. It will power down now only if the computer is completely shut off or put into sleep mode. Otherwise it runs constantly which it wasn't doing BEFORE the update.
DougO wrote: ↑
It's running constantly and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. There is no way to cycle it down and it wasn't doing this BEFORE the update. Good way to burn out a moving part by having it run continuously until it fails...
But which fan? The CPU fan? There are other fans in a PC. I think fans are controlled by BIOS and not Windows. Please correct me if I am wrong. On my computers I can set fan speeds based on CPU load only in BIOS. I've never seen this option in Windows. Check your BIOS maybe?
Should have clarified that this is an Acer Aspire 3 that I got last year and not a desktop. All solid state including the drive. Should be no problems with overheating as I use this for surfing only with no gaming or watching videos. CPU fan is running like the chip was going to melt but only AFTER the latest Win10 update. Prior to the update, it ran fine and you'd only ever hear the fan kick in if I was testing something like a 4K video clip in VLC. Very annoying...
If the fan goes quiet after, it's probably the patch and you can pause updates for a while and hope Microsoft fixes the fan issue (along with the vulnerability).
Also check if anything else got installed along with it (check the install dates).
I had a similar problem a while back after reinstalling Windows (8.0-8.1?), it turned out the CPU max energy saving was turned on deep in the Windows settings somewhere and it took me a fair bit of investigation to solve it. It was running iirc at a locked 5% capacity at all times.
I certainly didn't choose that setting and it took a lot of investigation and google fu to figure it out and fix it.
No idea if this is the same problem here but it is reminiscent.
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qaz393 wrote: ↑
windows update other contain the bios update. stupid acer
Did you computer go into black screen to install the BIOS update after Windows update? I install BIOS updates on my kids Dell laptops using a Dell Update app. Windows never offers BIOS updates. After the Dell app updates the BIOS (by rebooting and going into a black screen), Windows offers something called BIOS+version number. But it's not the BIOS itself, it's some kind of Windows driver that interacts with the BIOS.
alpovs wrote: ↑
Did you computer go into black screen to install the BIOS update after Windows update? I install BIOS updates on my kids Dell laptops using a Dell Update app. Windows never offers BIOS updates. After the Dell app updates the BIOS (by rebooting and going into a black screen), Windows offers something called BIOS+version number. But it's not the BIOS itself, it's some kind of Windows driver that interacts with the BIOS.
+1 on that.
Only the hardware manufacturer will provide the bios update app and version to do it. Windows do not touch that at all.
Can open up "Task Manager" and see what task is using the most/how much CPU power when the fan is going crazy. Have a temperature monitoring program as well to see if it is really a thermal issue or not.
Google chrome can also be a resource hog and you wont even know since it could be running in the back ground. Also make sure to check if Windows update is still running/downloading some update.
