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Little wind coming out of my fan

loushenwudi0512
By loushenwudi0512
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Hello everyone,

 

I noticed recently that my MSI GP72VR 7RF laptop has this overheating problem. I think the fans are not working properly. On Dragon Centre the fan speed were normal (with maxium @6000rps), but there is not too much wind coming out. I opened the back panel a few times in the past to change the thermal paste, which requires me to pull out and replug the fans. I spoke to MSI support and they told me something about EC firmware.

 

Can anyone suggest what to do here? How do I check what went wrong? What does EC firmware do?

 

Many thanks,

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You might have blocked airflow by putting something back in wrong.

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Embedded Controller (EC) manages power, battery, IO, display, and in your case, fan. EC firmware is store on a chip that programs the functionality of EC.

A bad EC and/or EC firmware might cause the system to behave abnormally like losing fan control.

I would suggest you to go to the support page of your laptop and check for EC and/or BIOS update. Follow the instruction to update EC firmware and BIOS.

 

Flashing firmware may brick your device, so proceed with caution.

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20 hours ago, fasauceome said:

You might have blocked airflow by putting something back in wrong.

The CPU fan seems not running at all, no wind coming out from CPU fan. But when I turn it to maximum it shows its 6000RPS and I can hear the noise of CPU fan.

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10 minutes ago, loushenwudi0512 said:

The CPU fan seems not running at all, no wind coming out from CPU fan. But when I turn it to maximum it shows its 6000RPS and I can hear the noise of CPU fan.

Correction: There is wind but it feels the same as I changed from 3000RPM to 6000RPM

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