Nitro 5 AN515 - whirring sound

Msk_D · December 2021

I have a Nitro 5 AN515. It's nearly a year old (in a few days).

Three months after receiving it, I noticed there was a low whirring noise every once in a while when previously the fans had been completely silent unless playing a game. It wasn't constant so I didn't think much of it, all laptops I'd had before it were quite loud all the time anyway. However, over the past month it's been constant to the point of annoying, and in the past few days it's become a lot louder. I went to a tech shop to ask for advice and was told to go back through Amazon as they were who I bought it from. Did that but was told I needed to solve it through the manufacturer instead. I use my laptop every day and don't particularly want to send it away if I can help it, I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to fix it myself.

Thanks

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Leostat · December 2021

Any chance we could get a recording of it? Whirring comes from usually either a fan which should be covered, hard drive (which is usually more of a click) which wouldn't be, or coil whine which sometimes is

Commodore_1995# · December 2021

What is the exact model? Example AN515-51-58VH. Can you record a video of the problem and post it on youtube?

Msk_D · December 2021

Leostat said:

Any chance we could get a recording of it? Whirring comes from usually either a fan which should be covered, hard drive (which is usually more of a click) which wouldn't be, or coil whine which sometimes is

egydiocoelho said:

What is the exact model? Example AN515-51-58VH. Can you record a video of the problem and post it on youtube?

Hello, thank you for your responses.

After some further testing of the system we have narrowed it down to being the GPU fans making the noise. There is no HDD in the laptop to make a clicking sound (SSD only) so we could tick that one off, and via the fan controller program installed we worked out that the CPU fan doesn't make the noise even when increased to high speeds but the GPU does after only around 1000rpm. The GPU temps range is set to 31c-36c on the fan controller and on auto settings the GPU fans are idling around 1840rpm when activated. Having used the laptop for longer periods lately, that's probably why I have noticed it more in the past month.

I can still record the noise and do so at various rpm to give a clear impression if you think it's necessary, but otherwise I think we can probably put it down to normal fan operation noise and having been using it for longer lately so it's been more noticeable over time.