Acer Aspire 5 - A515-45 Loud fan and high temperatures

milkan

I just got a factory refurbished A515-45 today from the Acer Recertified seller, and although performance has been good, I'm concerned about how quickly the temperature rises and the sound of the fan, primarily during charging.
When I'm only using Mozilla and have a couple applications like Steam and Discord in the background, the temperatures go from 45-65.While I was playing older games like Mount and Blade Warband, the temperature was between 68 and 76. On Team Fortress 2, a more CPU intensive game, it was around 70 and 82.
Off the charger, idle temperatures are about 40-55 C, and during gaming it is around 62-75 C.
When the temperature is above 70, I can hear the fan through my headset, although I don't have the volume high, it is worrying that I'm still able to hear it that much.
I reset the battery by pressing the pinhole and set the system cooling policy to be "Passive" on and off charging, as well as set the Maximum Processor State to be 97%. Strangely, when I open up BIOS, the fan turns into a jet engine the entire time it is open, regardless if it's charging or not.
What should I do? I just set up the laptop today, should I try a factory reset or return and get a repair?

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StevenGen

milkan said:

I just got a factory refurbished A515-45 today from the Acer Recertified seller, and although performance has been good, I'm concerned about how quickly the temperature rises and the sound of the fan, primarily during charging.
When I'm only using Mozilla and have a couple applications like Steam and Discord in the background, the temperatures go from 45-65.While I was playing older games like Mount and Blade Warband, the temperature was between 68 and 76. On Team Fortress 2, a more CPU intensive game, it was around 70 and 82.
Off the charger, idle temperatures are about 40-55 C, and during gaming it is around 62-75 C.
When the temperature is above 70, I can hear the fan through my headset, although I don't have the volume high, it is worrying that I'm still able to hear it that much.
I reset the battery by pressing the pinhole and set the system cooling policy to be "Passive" on and off charging, as well as set the Maximum Processor State to be 97%. Strangely, when I open up BIOS, the fan turns into a jet engine the entire time it is open, regardless if it's charging or not.
What should I do? I just set up the laptop today, should I try a factory reset or return and get a repair?

The cooling of the A515-45 thermal and fan combo is not the best of quality or very efficient, try to first clean all vents and repaste with a high quality paste like the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme, repasete the whole of the top of the CPU paste space with a thin layer and then secure the thermal module. Also check the fan bearing condition and functionality as you will find that its old and not working properly and its best to replace the fan with a new fan (as these refurbished laptops do not do that) as a new fan is very cheap and simple to replace and/or to repaste this laptop. Then try again as you will find that the laptop will perform allot better.

StevenGen

milkan said:

I just got a factory refurbished A515-45 today from the Acer Recertified seller, and although performance has been good, I'm concerned about how quickly the temperature rises and the sound of the fan, primarily during charging.
When I'm only using Mozilla and have a couple applications like Steam and Discord in the background, the temperatures go from 45-65.While I was playing older games like Mount and Blade Warband, the temperature was between 68 and 76. On Team Fortress 2, a more CPU intensive game, it was around 70 and 82.
Off the charger, idle temperatures are about 40-55 C, and during gaming it is around 62-75 C.
When the temperature is above 70, I can hear the fan through my headset, although I don't have the volume high, it is worrying that I'm still able to hear it that much.
I reset the battery by pressing the pinhole and set the system cooling policy to be "Passive" on and off charging, as well as set the Maximum Processor State to be 97%. Strangely, when I open up BIOS, the fan turns into a jet engine the entire time it is open, regardless if it's charging or not.
What should I do? I just set up the laptop today, should I try a factory reset or return and get a repair?

The cooling of the A515-45 thermal and fan combo is not the best of quality or very efficient, try to first clean all vents and repaste with a high quality paste like the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme, repasete the whole of the top of the CPU paste space with a thin layer and then secure the thermal module. Also check the fan bearing condition and functionality as you will find that its old and not working properly and its best to replace the fan with a new fan (as these refurbished laptops do not do that) as a new fan is very cheap and simple to replace and/or to repaste this laptop. Then try again as you will find that the laptop will perform allot better.

Jeyam

Hi @ milkan

Loud laptop fans mean heat; if your fans are always loud then that means your laptop is always hot. Dust and hair buildup are unavoidable, and only serves to reduce airflow. Reduced airflow means poor heat dissipation, so you'll need to physically clean the machine to make things bette

Easwar

Hi @milkan,

Dust is the most common cause of laptop noises. Dust damages your system in various ways including obstructing your laptops fan, which causes it to make loud noises. Your laptop's processor is essentially its brain; hence, we advise that you clean the processor's cooler from time to time.

Your laptop is overheating because of insufficient cooling. Potential reasons include dust blocking intake grills or exhaust ports, a clogged-up fan, or degenerating thermal paste or thermal pad.

gilvanvilarim

Same problem here, but this overheating takes place only when the notebook is connected to AC. If I am just using the battery, temperature is ok. Is there any problem with the AC cord? Or maybe the AC adapter driver in Windows?