jeye Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Hey guys,I'm having some issues with my Y500. Well, I'm not sure if it's a real issue or not but it's really annoying. Normally, my laptop is enjoyably quite. But every 30 sec up to 60 sec, the fan turns up and does some more noise. It's a normal fan noise, so I don't think it's broken. When I do some easy tasks like web browsing, core temperatur is about 44°C, graphic card about 36°C, so that seems to be ok, right? Could there be something that is broken? I would expect the fan to turn at a normal, average speed, rather than turning down and then turning up again. I tried to control the fan speed (e.g. Speedfan), but it didn't work, that's why I want to flash my BIOS. But first I want to exclude other reasons. I hope it's not because of dust, I read it's not an easy thing to open the Y500...Thank for your help, cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
programmargorp Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It depends on what you're running. My Y500 system fan (not the one in the 650M Ultrabay card) appears to spin up for no reason when I'm running stuff as well. Just not as often as once per minute.I think fanspeed is more dependent on system load than temps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florin Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 This happens when laptop is plugged-in and put on power saving scenario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARKWORLD Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 If you have Lenovo Energy Management installed then its more likely due to your system being in power saving mode, regardless of state. Changing this to Balanced or High Performance modes should resole your issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedomlh19 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 In your "Power Saving" advanced settings, what is your Processor power management > System cooling policy set to? Passive or active?I'm not sure how Passive works, but I've always been under the impression that it doesn't activate the fan until the CPU reaches a higher temperature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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