Question Custom Fan Curve For Acer Laptop ?

[Thunde]

Laptop model : Acer Aspire A715-51G

CPU: i5 1240P

GPU: 3050 Ti (60w)

RAM: 32GB 3200mhz

Hi, i recently purchased 5 identical laptops as above and all seem to have this issue.

They all ramp up their fan speed while idle, and temps being in the 40s.

Things i tried:

- I upgraded to latest bios (problem was on the first bios too). This bios allows by hitting FN+F to change the fan speed profile from (Silent>Normal>Turbo). Care to say, the silent one isn't rly silent.

- I tried using Msi Afterburner, SpeedFan and Notebook FanControl. But neither were able to "detect" my fans.

- Using XTU to limit the power usage of the cpus. This seems to... help, but it's really not practical. I have to limit the power usage to like 13-15w and even then, the fans will still randomly spin up when the temps are in the 40s.

- Also changed the paste to Arctic mx-6 of one of the laptops that was like 10c hotter than the rest, but didn't solve it, just helped.

In full load, the temps aren't even bad. They stay in the 70s when gaming with 100% gpu usage and mostly 80%+ cpu usage.

Is there a way for me to create a custom fan curve? like a custom bios or something. This would solve all my problems. I feel like the only thing left to do is find a notebook cooler and hope that's gonna be enough to prevent the default fan curve from triggering.

 

[zinkles]

I feel like the only thing left to do is find a notebook cooler and hope that's gonna be enough to prevent the default fan curve from triggering.

Still, it seems like according to what you mentioned, when it goes above 40C it will ramp up. The default "curve" is probably not that good, and maybe a custom curve being set by software is still being overwritten by the BIOS and the fans still ramp up (?)

If your BIOS itself doesn't allow you to do this, I don't think there's another way, since software didn't help either. Just to be sure, look around in the BIOS and check for settings related to fan speeds.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

Are these brand-new laptops? Did you buy them all at the same place?

 

[Thunde]

Still, it seems like according to what you mentioned, when it goes above 40C it will ramp up. The default "curve" is probably not that good, and maybe a custom curve being set by software is still being overwritten by the BIOS and the fans still ramp up (?)

If your BIOS itself doesn't allow you to do this, I don't think there's another way, since software didn't help either. Just to be sure, look around in the BIOS and check for settings related to fan speeds.

i've scoured through the bios, was unable to find anything related to fans.

i wish i would be able to even set a custom curve to be overwritten, but not even that seems possible

 

[Thunde]

Are these brand-new laptops? Did you buy them all at the same place?

Yes, all of them brand new, same place.

 

[zinkles]

I doubt there is actually a solution to this if the BIOS doesn't support it either. Any setting you apply manually will be overwritten by the BIOS setting, so you cant really help but live with it.

 

[Thunde]

Thanks for trying.. i guess i wasn't willing to accept this. Such a shame.. the laptop isn't even overheating and ramps up the fans.. it would be perfect to fix it.

Or hell, if only intel would allow ThrottleStop to work with these processors.. i'd undervolt it by like -100mv and that would also help quite a lot

 

[Addams]

Laptops don't really let you customize your fans for some stupid reason. The only brand I saw normal fan control is MSI laptops, where you can customise the fan curve. The downloadable/built in software of Huawei, HP, Asus, Mac laptops are very limited or non-existent. Probably the fan curve is locked in the BIOS as well.
(I have Huawei where the fan treshold is 40°C which the laptop easily reaches even by having a pdf open in most cases. So I'm left with a laptop turning on and off it's fans in 2 minute cycles when I would like to read stuff on it, making me frustrated.)
After days of research I'm also saying that accepting it is the only way if you don't want to sell it and buy an MSI becouse of a uncontrollable damn parameter. Also updates released by the manufacturers might also just erease the controllability in the future in remaining laptops.
Why can't we have more control over our device?

 

[game-tea]

There is actually a way to unlock Insydeh2o bios'es, and your laptop is on the list of fully unlocked community patches so I hope you have email notifications on for this forum
https://github.com/Maxinator500/SREP-Patches
Unlocks basically everything down to chipset debugging, overclocking/undervolting/vrm controls, ram oc (don't go above chipset max supported speed, your laptop will not boot) etc etc. Also has fan settings under some thermal management menu but you're gonna have to dig a bit because it's very cluttered.
Edit: Don't forget to enable Secure boot before booting the usb drive with SREP, otherwise it will not work. And re-enable it afterwards .