Hp Elitebook x360 1030 g8 fans always spinning

[aster5]

Hello,

I recently bought a used hp elitebook x360 1030 g8 laptop. It is in very good condition and basically looks completely new. I installed all the drivers and set it up properly, but one problem i can't fix is the fan noise. The fans almost always spins, i can hear them quite well in a quiet room. Is this normal or is there something i can do about it ?

I tried installing hp command center, but it doesn't do anything, it doesn't even work at all i think. I put the laptop in best power efficiency mode through windows settings, but i can still hear the fans sometimes, even in tablet mode. I downloaded cpu temperature monitoring program and it showed that the cpu is at about 35-40 degrees celsius on idle.

So is this just how the laptop operates or is there any solution ?

Laptop specs:

i5 1135g7 (not EVO, just standart core)

16 gb ram

windows 11 pro

256 gb ssd

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

There is a 'Fan always on when plugged into A/C power' setting in the BIOS.

The default is enabled, so to turn the fans off except when needed when on A/C power, you can disable that setting.

If the fans are always running even on battery, unfortunately I would not know why that would be.

[TzortzisG]

Hi!

Paul, these laptops have the BIOS fan setting disabled by default.

aster5, it's totally normal, it's how this (and its different size siblings) operates. It's by design. Both on this generation (G8) and the G9s that followed. Check out this thread here: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Business-Notebooks/Elitebook-1040-G9-noisy-fan-in-low-CPU-load/td-p/84.... You'll see that we've pretty much run this topic to the ground 😉, but there's some useful info in there. Only thing that quiets these machines down a bit is tablet mode.....