Laptop fan runs away / creeps upwards (Asus TUF Dash F15)

[Chronified]

Odd behavior from my laptop, the fan RPM slowly creeps up regardless of load / temperature.

 

Specs: Asus TUF Dash F15

i7 11370H

RTX 3070 @ 85w

16GB (2x8) 3200Mhz

2x 512GB NVMe

 

Here my fan is screaming after about 5 minutes of light desktop usage (Youtube and spreadsheets)

 

"Solution" has been to change the power profile every 5 minutes. Drops the fan back down to 0rpm / low enough not to hear and the cycle repeats.

 

Doesn't matter if I'm going from Turbo to Eco, or Eco to Turbo, or any of the options available, it suddenly drops the RPM as soon as I change only to return a few minutes later.

 

 

Temps are fine, more than fine, I actually went as far as replacing the stock thermal paste and adjusting the pads thinking maybe a VRM was getting cooked and the RPM was increasing to counteract that. Nope, everything is fine and I dropped 5c idle temps in the process.

 

Silent does nothing, it still creeps upwards after 5 minutes.

 

Switching from from the dedicated GPU to iGPU or vice versa does nothing.

 

BIOS and Windows are fully up to date, problem existed on the original OEM Windows install, fresh Windows install and with Armoury Crate installed.

 

I can't find ANY way to manually control the fan, Google is helpless, any other solutions you guys can think of ?? Thanks!

 

 

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For anyone else reading this with the same laptop
As of Feb 2023 there is no found solution.

 

Things that didn't work:

• BIOS Reset
• BIOS Flash to newest (v328)
• A fewer older BIOS
• Fan curve is missing in both software and BIOS,
• Customizable Turbo profile doesn't exist,
• Reformatting Windows
• Speedfan
• Reinstalling/Downgrading ArmoryCrate
• New/Old chipset drivers
• Asus Support (Sold at BestBuy)

 

^^edit tool won't let me remove this lol

[Gokul_P]

7 minutes ago, Chronified said:

Odd behavior from my laptop, the fan RPM slowly creeps up regardless of load / temperature.

 

Specs: Asus TUF Dash F15

i7 11370H

RTX 3070 @ 85w

16GB (2x8) 3200Mhz

2x 512GB NVMe

 

Here my fan is screaming after about 5 minutes of light desktop usage (Youtube and spreadsheets)

 

"Solution" has been to change the power profile every 5 minutes. Drops the fan back down to 0rpm / low enough not to hear and the cycle repeats.

 

Doesn't matter if I'm going from Turbo to Eco, or Eco to Turbo, or any of the options available, it suddenly drops the RPM as soon as I change only to return a few minutes later.

 

 

Temps are fine, more than fine, I actually went as far as replacing the stock thermal paste and adjusting the pads thinking maybe a VRM was getting cooked and the RPM was increasing to counteract that. Nope, everything is fine and I dropped 5c idle temps in the process.

 

Silent does nothing, it still creeps upwards after 5 minutes.

 

Switching from from the dedicated GPU to iGPU or vice versa does nothing.

 

BIOS and Windows are fully up to date, problem existed on the original OEM Windows install, fresh Windows install and with Armoury Crate installed.

 

I can't find ANY way to manually control the fan, Google is helpless, any other solutions you guys can think of ?? Thanks!

 

Bios usually contain the fan curve options. 

[Chronified]

1 hour ago, Gokul_P said:

Bios usually contain the fan curve options. 

 

Nope, no fan curves here, just monitoring 

[SpeedMachine]

You should have an option of Manual next to Turbo where you can set custom fan cur ves for CPU & GPU and power levels. Maybe try making sure it's plugged in/switch GPU modes/update, downgrade or reinstall Armoury Crate?

[Dreamy1]

I did had the same problem.but on hp.it got fix after updating the drivers and software.

 

[Gokul_P]

Isnt this your fancurve

[Chronified]

14 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Isnt this your fancurve

I double click that and it does nothing, that chart is also not reporting fan speeds, just temp and voltage

[Chronified]

33 minutes ago, SpeedMachine said:

You should have an option of Manual next to Turbo where you can set custom fan cur ves for CPU & GPU and power levels. Maybe try making sure it's plugged in/switch GPU modes/update, downgrade or reinstall Armoury Crate?

 

Nope nothing there   This is after completely reinstalling Windows and reinstalling the Armory Crate software. Noticing a lot of missing features on my 2021 TUF that the 2022 has (like yours)

[Gokul_P]

5 minutes ago, Chronified said:

 

Nope nothing there   This is after completely reinstalling Windows and reinstalling the Armory Crate software. Noticing a lot of missing features on my 2021 TUF that the 2022 has (like yours)

You installed the chipset drivers right

 

[Gokul_P]

7 minutes ago, Chronified said:

I double click that and it does nothing, that chart is also not reporting fan speeds, just temp and voltage

Try Updating the bios it is definitely meant to be fan curve  

[Chronified]

3 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Try Updating the bios it is definitely meant to be fan curve  

BIOS is the most modern v328 , they haven't released an update since 2021

 

4 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

You installed the chipset drivers right

 

Yup, even just reran the installer for a sanity check, nada

[Gokul_P]

3 minutes ago, Chronified said:

BIOS is the most modern v328 , they haven't released an update since 2021

 

Yup, even just reran the installer for a sanity check, nada

Try resetting the bios It seems like some weird issue with the bios 

[Chronified]

4 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Try resetting the bios It seems like some weird issue with the bios 

Have tried 3x already, once when I upgraded the RAM it did it itself, again when I updated the BIOS, again troubleshooting..

 

For sanity sake

 

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Aww it didn't work lol

 

 

 

[SpeedMachine]

15 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Try Updating the bios it is definitely meant to be fan curve  

I just checked my 2022 model on the latest bios and it's just cpu fan speed temp and voltage

[Gokul_P]

32 minutes ago, Chronified said:

Have tried 3x already, once when I upgraded the RAM it did it itself, again when I updated the BIOS, again troubleshooting..

 

For sanity sake

 

""

 

Aww it didn't work lol

 

 

 

You could try Notebook fancontroll softwere i doubt it works for the laptop https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc/releases It doubt it has Support for Gaming laptops bcz they all have these softweres it is more for the Non gaming laptops with practially no way to alter the fan curves so try it i guess Btw i forgpt to mention you can create custom configs That is where you can setup the fancurves. The other option will be 

 

[Chronified]

1 hour ago, Gokul_P said:

You could try Notebook fancontroll softwere i doubt it works for the laptop https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc/releases It doubt it has Support for Gaming laptops bcz they all have these softweres it is more for the Non gaming laptops with practially no way to alter the fan curves so try it i guess Btw i forgpt to mention you can create custom configs That is where you can setup the fancurves. The other option will be 

 

Speedfan was one of the first things I tried before I even reformatted the laptop, no dice

[Gokul_P]

Just now, Chronified said:

Speedfan was one of the first things I tried before I even reformatted the laptop, no dice

So its maybe the hardware Maybe The Fan Bus has some issues. 

[Chronified]

1 minute ago, Gokul_P said:

So its maybe the hardware Maybe The Fan Bus has some issues. 

Not sure, the hardware monitors all return proper RPM for the fans as they ramp, the software side just refuses to acknowledge it's creeping upwards 

[Gokul_P]

1 minute ago, Chronified said:

Not sure, the hardware monitors all return proper RPM for the fans as they ramp, the software side just refuses to acknowledge it's creeping upwards 

Then its a broken bios. try asus support 

[Chronified]

2 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

Then its a broken bios. try asus support 

The reflash should've/would've solved that, if I did an RMA they'd likely just reflash, find it still has the issue, then say my device is out of production so there's nothing they can do

[Gokul_P]

6 minutes ago, Chronified said:

The reflash should've/would've solved that, if I did an RMA they'd likely just reflash, find it still has the issue, then say my device is out of production so there's nothing they can do

If you have warrenty you should do that They will give you a similer one. 

[Chronified]

2 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

If you have warrenty you should do that They will give you a similer one. 

Was worth a shot, entered my serial number aaaaaaaaaaand... they don't even provide support to stuff sold at Bestbuy smh

[Gokul_P]

Just now, Chronified said:

Was worth a shot, entered my serial number aaaaaaaaaaand... they don't even provide support to stuff sold at Bestbuy smh

thats weird You should just click through Most of the time they dont care if they do You will be back to square one

[Chronified]

2 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

thats weird You should just click through Most of the time they dont care if they do You will be back to square one

They won't even let me connect to chat support ;-; This is comical at this point lol

 

https://i.imgur.com/0owasiB.mp4 

[Gokul_P]

10 minutes ago, Chronified said:

They won't even let me connect to chat support ;-; This is comical at this point lol

 

https://i.imgur.com/0owasiB.mp4 

Thats actually super not nice from a brand like asus. You have some options left may or maynot fix the issue

 

You can clean the laptop and reapply the thermal paste

You can reprogram the bios using a 5$ adapter to a known working one (https://www.amazon.com/Organizer-Socket-Adpter-Programmer-CH341A/dp/B07R5LPTYM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=UZRR49Z5GS67&keywords=bios+reprogram+tool&qid=1676210997&sprefix=bios+reprogramm+too%2Caps%2C341&sr=8-3 You could find one in ebay,Aliexpress for cheaper)

I think asus is a sponser of LMG so complaing it there (according to https://linusmediagroup.com/ they are) or in twitter (usually it works) helps you fix the issue but i seriously doubt that 

try contacting Best Buy support https://www.bestbuy.com/support