Fans are hardware devices used for cooling other devices which generate lots of heat.
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Give Compaq Presario cq62 More Control of Fan
I've been having overheating issues with Ubuntu 13.04 (and probably before as well, but I wasn't doing anything as intensive as I am now) and I'm noticing that the fan never kicks into "jet engine" ...
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My fan is always on but not in MSWindows (HP elitebook 8460p)
Problem: My laptop(new) fan is ALWAYS on.
Question: What can I do to solve this issue?
Situation:
HP Elitebook 8460p
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (clean install, no mod, nothing... really clean... no ...
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8 CPU and one is at ~100% all the time
With :
Ubuntu Release 12.04 (precise) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-29-generic
Intel® Core™ i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40GHz × 8
The first CPU is always at ~70%-100% with nothing big running and it is making ...
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Laptop fan speed abnormally high after installing 13.04, Unity doesn't load after installing and removing fglrx
I have a Toshiba Satellite P300-1FO laptop, and I recently deleted my 12.10 and freshly installed 13.04.
The fan speed becomes abnormally high after a short time operating the computer. The CPU ...
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Water Cooler fan control with Ubuntu 12.04
Phenom X4 965 3.4ghz
4gb RAM
ATI Radeon HD 6870 1gb
Water Cooler Corsair
After fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04, my water coller was ever enable and run so fast.
I can't disable or control it.
I ...
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fan noise and high battery consumption with AMD hybrid graphics
as described here dell 7520 (inspiron 15R SE), fan on full speed on 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, i still have problems with my energy comsumption and fan noise under ubuntu 13.04.
i could reduce it to a ...
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dell 7520 (inspiron 15R SE), fan on full speed on 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
the fan on my dell inspiron 7520 (inspiron 15R SE) is constantly running at full speed with alot of noise.
technical details:
GRAPHICS : 2GB AMD RADEON HD 7730M, switchable/hybrid with intel 4000 ...
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Fan speed and heating problem on macbook pro 9,2 running Ubuntu 13.04
I used to run Ubuntu 12.04 with Vmware on my macbook pro 13 inch (9,2). Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 13.04 with dual boot with rEFit. I started facing over heating problem while running Ubuntu even on ...
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Netbook Fan speed Lenovo x130e
After using Ubuntu 13.04 for about a week I have noticed that my netbook's fan speed seems to be moving faster that it should. In windows I would have moments where the fan would spin slow or shut ...
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ThinkPad fan control via procfs
My ThinkPad W500 used to crash sometimes under heavy load because the automatic control is not speeding up the fan far enough. But I was able to disengage the fan and let it run at full speed in ...
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Fan working non-stop on a Dell Inspiron 5110
First of all i'm new at ubuntu. I've only tried 11.10 before 12.04. Since then my notebook's(Dell Insprion 5110) fan was working non-stop. And also battery lasts in 2 hours. So i made a research. Some ...
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High fan speed and noise after system wakeup in newly install 13.04
I've just installed ubuntu 13.04 on my notebook Compaq 6720s and found the cpu fun working at high speed after waking system up.
When the system is booted the fan works normaly and realy calm. But ...
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Heat and Fan noise with Dell Vostro and 12.04
I recently bought a Dell Vostro 3560 Ci5 Laptop with the intention to install Ubuntu 12.04. The laptop came with Windows 8 pre-installed.
Before installing Ubuntu from USB-drive I did in BIOS disable ...
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Fan speed in 12.10 too loud
When my PC boots up the fan speed whirls like a beast even when browsing the BIOS, settings, etc, which is fair enough. Previously when I was using Windows it used to calm down as soon as it boots ...
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Latitude D630 Fan Not Working
I have a Del Latitude D630 That the fan never turns on. I tried FanControl. pwmsensors doesn’t show anything.
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How to get rid of overheating in Dell studio 1558 laptop installed with Ubuntu 12.10?
I am using Dell Studio 1558 Laptop.
Installed with Ubuntu 12.10
It gets overheated many times and then system start to hang,
how to get rid of this problem of overheating?
Either i should increase ...
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Drivers corrupted after update for first time?
I had dual booted Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 on my Laptop.
After installing I observed that the fan was on all the time, resulting in huge electricity usage.
There was an alert that I had ~200 ...
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fan out loud on ubuntu 12.10
i just installed ubuntu 12.10 i386, and at first i have two problems.
out loud fan sound
low battery life
my laptop: dell inspiron N4030 with Mobility Radeon HD 5430 Series ATI card.
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Fan doesn't stop
I am using Ubuntu 13.04.
I am really over of Ubuntu I used to like it as its far away from crashing and viruses like in Windows , but every day I found a problem
Today and I really can handle it and ...
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How to get Ubuntu to use as much Resources as Lubuntu
Well.. I love Ubuntu, but it causes my laptop to use resources up, and I don't even know why. it even cause my laptop's fan to run louder and heat up (not overheat, but it does get hot). As soon as I ...
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High CPU Temperature and fan speed noise [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 13.04. In which I am getting High CPU temperature and fan speed from beginning of the system. Temperature remain > 62°C. I am using Jupitar but it's not helping in case of mine. ...
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Fans running very fast on MacBook Pro 8.1
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 8.1 and one of the first things I noticed was that the fans were starting to spin very fast every few minutes for 10-30 sec and then going back to normal. That ...
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How to control fan speed?
How can i control fan speed?
On windows there is wonderful program called speedfan.
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What can I do to prevent Ubuntu from overheating my Notebook?
I have an easynote tj65 (2.1 ghz dual core with Geforce GT240M) running Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 in dual-boot-mode.
While Windows 7 doesn't have any comparable issues, Ubuntu is making my notebook ...
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Compaq 615 fan control
How can I control the fan of my Compaq 615 VQ632EA#ABD ?
'sudo pwmconfig' tells me:
There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
Could someone PLEASE tell me what the problem is?
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Laptop fan always on in Ubuntu 12.10?
I have dual booted Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron 15r 3rd gen laptop. In Windows I have absolutely no problem with fan. But when I boot into Ubuntu after about a min the fan speed ...
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Can I change my stock amd fan speed?
I have an amd a4-5300, and it it running loud. I remember my last amd stock fan being silent. I can't change it in my bios, and I see that it might be possible to do through Ubuntu when googling. I ...
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Fans really loud, ubuntu 12.10
I've been trying to get into using Ubuntu 12.10, but it's hard when my PCs fans are nonstop running so loud I get a headache at the very least.
While it was running Windows 7 the fans were mostly ...
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Fan speed in ubuntu: pwmconfig no pwm-capable sensor modules installed
I followed this guide about how to control fan speed in Ubuntu, but it doesn't work with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r).
I installed lm-sensors and fancontrol packages. Then I configured lm-sensors by ...
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Dell XPS 15z suddenly shuts down
I have a new Dell XPS 15z and I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. At first, I had many problems to run Ubuntu installer, but it finally worked with acpi_backlight=vendor dell_laptop.backlight=0 boot ...
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overheating in ubuntu but not in windows
my sensors show 70°C coretemp. (sometimes up to 80°C)
lm-sensors sudo sensors-detect yesyes...:
Client found at address 0x50
Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No
Probing ...
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Ubuntu heat & fan control on Lenovo
I tried to use Ubuntu (12.10) on my MacBook Pro 8,2 but it wasnt possible to use because it was always very hot and in fact there wasn't fan control. The fans always turned the same speed and nothing ...
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Laptop overheating
I have a Toshiba L500-128 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit OS,
the only problem I have is the overheating of my CPU, with temperatures from 70 to 90 C.
I think that this is related to the usage of the ...
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Fan error when booting in Ubuntu 12.04
Everything went normally, when yesterday night I was turning off my Thinkpad laptop. I did nothing special.
Today, when I tried to start using it, all I get is an error message "Fan error" and ...
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high fan speed (not addressed by other forum posts)
my desktop fans sound like a jet engine in Ubuntu but not windows
CPU load is low.
CPU temperatures are good ( 30-40 C )
I have installed Juipiter and set it to power save mode
UPDATE : GPU ...
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Fan always on HP Pavilion dv6-6195sp
After install Ubuntu 12.04 (fresh install) on my HP Pavilion dv6-6195sp the processor fan it´s always on...
Can someone help ?
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CPU fan deactivated during 11.10 installation
I have tried to install Ubuntu 11.10. During the installation process the CPU fan was switched off. Some minutes later the notebook switched itself off.
How could I switch the fan manually on?
Are ...
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CPU/GPU fan not working properly on Intel Macbook 4,1 under Ubuntu 11.10
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Intel MacBook 4,1 and I have noticed that the cpu temperature is getting very high and the fan, although working, is not increasing its speed to cope with the ...
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Loud fan and very hot pc
I know, that you don't like when someone ask same question as is answered but I try a lot of solutions and nothing helped...
I installed Ubuntu 12.10, everything is good but fan is very noise and ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 overheats and fan runs high
I have the problem with my fan constantly and hot CPU. I have a Dell Inspirion 15r special edition. I followed the instructions to load Jupiter to solve this but when I enter:
sudo ...
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MD Radeon HD 7730M (Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition)
I cannot find the drivers for AMD Radeon HD 7730M(Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition) on the AMD website! can someone please send me the link to download any open source drivers if available?
Also the ...
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How to control CPU fan with no pwm-capable sensors?
I've tried to follow the directions on this thread:
How to control fan speed?
But at the end of the day, pwmconfig gives me this error:
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor ...
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fan noise in ubuntu 12.10
I have installed ubuntu 12.01 on my laptop Dell Inspiron E1705. The fan is running continuously and is quite noise. Is there any way to fix this problem? Thank you.
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How to control fan noise in Ubuntu 12.04?
After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I could find that my fan noise is heavier than before. Even though my my CPU usage is less than 10%.
can anybody tell me how to control the noise
Thanks.
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How to reduce the fan noise and how to increase battery life?
I have a brand new Sony Vaio S series laptop.(VPCSA2DGX) It came factory installed with Windows 7 professional Edition 64bit. Runs Intel core i5, 500 GB HDD , 4GB Ram. First I installed ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 , Fan noise, Dell Inspirion 15 R (7520)
i just installed 12.04 on windows based Dell Inspirion 15 R (7520). The probelm is with the fan . They are running almost all the time . It is annoying and really bothering me. The system is not hot ...
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How to control fan speed on my desktop?
I found a post on "How to control the fan speed on my laptop" but nothing about the same thing on a desktop. I'd like to replicate the same thing on my desktop but till now I had not such luck.
I ...
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AMD Radeon HD 4250 - Fan noise and driver choice
I have the Asus Eee-pc 1015T - this is an AMD based netbook and it comes with a great AMD Radeon HD 4250 vga.
With Windows 7 it can play 1080p HD video smoothly and during normal usage the average ...
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Manually turn on CPU fan
My BIOS controls my fan speeds, and I want to keep it that way. I have a machine in my basement where it's normally pretty cool, and as long as the machine isn't under high load the fans don't need to ...
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My Ubuntu 12.10 partition is frozen in the Safe Graphics Mode?
I have an Acer Aspire 5315 with Ubuntu 12.10 on it. I had it fully customized, except for the fact that my cooling fan wouldn't work. After some research, I found out that the fans are run off of ...
