Hey everyone, after I installed zorin os on my laptop I started to expierience noisy fan problems which never happened on windows. How can I keep them quiet while also cooling the system? What I have tried is setting the profile to powersave which kept the fans calm but also made the expierience slow and laggy. I have 8GB ram 512SSD with intel and amd graphics
Did You take a Look in the System Monitor if there are any Ressource-intense Proccesses shown?
Well i checked and there are no heavy resource aplications except for wine which had the 20MB memory, but all i see in the cpu column are 0s most of them. I need to note that i installed one game on it with wine. This happend to me with the Netbeans IDE as well once
Does this specifically happen in regards to specific applications? Or is this an issue with the system in general, for example you boot it up and the fans are extremely loud right on the desktop without doing anything else?
It happened yesterday when i opened netbeans, after that i tried installing tlp which helped alot. It happens and goes in random times. For example when i installed a game with wine, it happened. It also happened to me when I booted today. Fortunately now its ok. Do you think it may be caused by heating, or just from a dusty internals? Cause im not sure what may cause it. My laptop is 11 years old. And it makes me questioning because on windows this wasnt a common thing.
With a laptop that's that old, I would definitely take a little bit to check the fans (and take off the bottom if you can) to do a proper dusting to make sure there isn't anything in the fans blocking the intakes or exhausts. It could be a situation that Windows was allowing the system to run hotter than perhaps Linux was liking to see, which is definitely a thing that can happen.
Another thing that goes unchecked, and especially in laptops, is the thermal paste going bad that's used. I believe that the typical life span is around 10 years, and for laptops it goes worse quicker because of much higher temp changes over the life of the device. Even if this isn't the issue right now, it probably isn't helping the situation at all, and might be worth doing regardless if you're able to.
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Do you have CPU Frequency Scaling Tool? Try setting it to On-Demand. My guess is it is set to max frequency at all times that's why it gets hot. If you have the program but for some reason it won't let you set the frequency, try adding intel_pstate=false on your boot stanza and reboot (that is if you have an intel cpu). Here's a screenshot of mine. As you can see, it is currently running in between 1GHz to 2HGz and this is a 3.5GHz cpu.
Ok i downloaded it and my settings are schedutil and max frequency on all cpus
Excellent! Now try setting it to on-demand and set your frequency range. Hope this works for you.
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Thanks for your help, now its better
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