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‎01-13-2018 04:30 PM

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Product: HP EliteBook 1040 G3 Notebook PC
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

When I first purchased this laptop more than a year ago I immediately installed windows 10, and immediately notices an issue with the two fans in this laptop, both of them will come on and their speed and whirring will ramp up and down endlessly. Incredibly annoying and impossible to ignore.

 

Bios updates and fiddling did nothing, and I settled on a program 'notebook fan control' which allows me to turn off the fans until it reaches a certain temperature at which point they automatically come on and do the whirring but it allows me to use the laptop normally at most times, but when I stress it is is very annoying as the fans are loud an ramping up and down.

 

This has been good enough for more than a year, until I decided that I was going to attempt the bios updates again thinking that surely this utterly unacceptable issue would have been fixed by now, it has not.

 

This is a problem others have reported, but I haven't seen any solutions beyond notebook fan control or the suggest TPfancontrol (which is worse than useless as it just set the left fan to full speed even at idle and it still ramps)

 

Is there something I have missed?

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