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[Pop_OS] Laptop's fan goes loud on lid open (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Pop_OS in place of ubuntu last week, and loving it so far. Most things worked out-of-the-box, but there is this one thing that has been bothering me.

Whenever I open the lid of my laptop, the fan goes crazy and becomes very loud. Strangely, changing the battery option to "High Performance" seems to silence it. Why is this happening, and how can I remedy this issue?

My laptop is ASUS ROG Zephyrus, and yes I should not have chosen this one.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you check if there is high load when the fan spins up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I think the load should be pretty low since only firefox is running with 0~1 tabs opened.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It should, yes. But is it, actually?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to see this? Sorry, I am lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could use the system Monitor, it is built-in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, it seems to briefly spikes to 100%, then dies down later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So the fans stay loud even when cpu load is low again?

If not this could just be some kinds of "dust prevention"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, it stays loud until I change the battery settings.