Aspire 5 Aspire A515-47 - insanely loud cooling fan

Tomas_B
Tomas_B Member Posts: 4 New User
edited May 2023 in Aspire Laptops

Hello. I just purchased a brand new Aspire 5 with Ryzen / Radeon, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. Even when not running anything remotely demanding of a CPU, the fan starts spinning and makes huge noise, as if I'm in a wind tunnel. I can only be copying files or playing a video, it just goes off like crazy at seemingly unimportant times. Is there any way to tone it down? Any help would be appreciated. 🙏

[Edited the thread to add model name]

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  • Kno63
    Kno63 ACE Posts: 15,226 Trailblazer
    edited May 2023 Answer ✓

    Hi Tomas_B ,

    did you try this (exerpt from the user manual)?:

    Kind regards

    Jochen

    Edit: Maybe you first have to change the keyboard behaviour from "Media key" to "function key" in the UEFI to get the "Fn + F" shortcut to work.

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  • What is the exact model and bios version? Example AN515-55-5890.

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  • wascas
    wascas Member Posts: 1,194 High-End Contributor WiFi Icon
    edited March 2023

    What is the exact model Name? Example A5XX-XX-XXXX.

    The latest BIOS version is installed? Open a command prompt as administrator and enter the following command: wmic bios get smbiosbiosversion.

    Then open the Acer support site, enter your model name (example A515-56), search for the latest BIOS version and compare it with your version installed.

  • Tomas_B
    Tomas_B Member Posts: 4 New User

    Hello and thanks for the tip, my BIOS verison is 1.03. The page also lists 1.04 so I suppose it'd be worth to replace the old one.

  • Tomas_B
    Tomas_B Member Posts: 4 New User

    Hello, the model is Aspire A515-47. My BIOS version is 1.03. I should note that I just left the computer to run for about 45 minutes without doing anything on it and the fan still runs. I only had Chrome open, so there shouldn't be any reason for the computer to be overheating.

  • Can you record a video of the problem before updating the bios?

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  • Kno63
    Kno63 ACE Posts: 15,226 Trailblazer
    edited May 2023 Answer ✓

    Hi Tomas_B ,

    did you try this (exerpt from the user manual)?:

    Kind regards

    Jochen

    Edit: Maybe you first have to change the keyboard behaviour from "Media key" to "function key" in the UEFI to get the "Fn + F" shortcut to work.

    "There's more to the picture than meets the eye ..."
     _______________________________________________
    Bitte bei der hilfreichsten Antwort die Markierung als Lösung nicht vergessen; du hilfst damit anderen, die das selbe Problem haben!
    "Likes"? Warum nicht! ;-)
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