jsarver wrote:
i do work in a quiet environment so maybe thats why i notice this. does your fan oscillate regularly? mine literally kicks on and off every 30 seconds or so while browsing youtube or anytime i open apps.
jsarver, it's possible something is running in the background that brings up the utilization floor to the point where your app use pushes the utilization up enough to require Active fan cooling. Monitor background processes and sort by highest CPU, you might find something.
I had this happen to me recently, a background Media process was running and soaking up CPU during idle times. I solved it by uninstalling the bundled Cyberlink PowerDVD app and downloading and installing the newest version.
I usually uninstall the bundled Cyberlink software and install the latest as part of the first things I do, but this time I left it installed longer than normal. It might have been running in the background indexing my media, and at the new install I select it to not do that.
I have Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 13 installed now, and it stays idle:
I have found background indexing, media servers (sharing), anti-virus scans, broken utilities, etc. Find it, reconfigure, tune, or uninstall it to solve the problem.
If you don't find other background stuff running while youtube viewing, or whatever else you notice the every 30 seconds cooling symptom, it might be the JH active cooling fan response curve.
I don't think the JH is that much different on the CPU side than the JX/JW, but I guess it is possible that the Fan curve tuning to accommodate the larger cooling area/fan in the JH might have provided an opportunity to mess it up - and the tuning went too far in the wrong direction. But, others with JH's are replying that they don't see the problem - so we are back to your background processes.
You might want to uninstall Adobe Flash and try Youtube as HTML5 (youtube keeps both versions, or converts on the fly) and see if you have the same symptoms (while watching for background processing).
Try a new Adobe Flash install for both IE and Firefox too.
HWinfo64, AIDA64, and others are good for watching CPU temps and utilization. Watching those to see what temp / utilization the fans start up will be good to know.
http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
http://www.aida64.com/downloads
It is also possible that the build on your laptop might not have as good of a Thermal paste job on your CPU, or some install issue with the cooling system. That would take a trip to Asus to fix - fixing it yourself - opening the top to get access - voids the warranty I am told. Check with Asus if it comes to a question with the cooling system.
You can mask the problem for now by going into the selected Control Panel => Power Options => selected Power plan => Change Plan Settings=> Change advanced power settings => Processor Power Management => set Cooling Policy to Passive for Plugged in and Battery
That will change the response to more heat to reduce CPU speed vs turn on the fan for active cooling - at least it is supposed to 🙂
Let us know what you find!
hmscott wrote:
jsarver, it's possible something is running in the background that brings up the utilization floor to the point where your app use pushes the utilization up enough to require Active fan cooling. Monitor background processes and sort by highest CPU, you might find something.
I had this happen to me recently, a background Media process was running and soaking up CPU during idle times. I solved it by uninstalling the bundled Cyberlink PowerDVD app and downloading and installing the newest version.
I usually uninstall the bundled Cyberlink software and install the latest as part of the first things I do, but this time I left it installed longer than normal. It might have been running in the background indexing my media, and at the new install I select it to not do that.
I have Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 13 installed now, and it stays idle:
I have found background indexing, media servers (sharing), anti-virus scans, broken utilities, etc. Find it, reconfigure, tune, or uninstall it to solve the problem.
If you don't find other background stuff running while youtube viewing, or whatever else you notice the every 30 seconds cooling symptom, it might be the JH active cooling fan response curve.
I don't think the JH is that much different on the CPU side than the JX/JW, but I guess it is possible that the Fan curve tuning to accommodate the larger cooling area/fan in the JH might have provided an opportunity to mess it up - and the tuning went too far in the wrong direction. But, others with JH's are replying that they don't see the problem - so we are back to your background processes.
You might want to uninstall Adobe Flash and try Youtube as HTML5 (youtube keeps both versions, or converts on the fly) and see if you have the same symptoms (while watching for background processing).
Try a new Adobe Flash install for both IE and Firefox too.
HWinfo64, AIDA64, and others are good for watching CPU temps and utilization. Watching those to see what temp / utilization the fans start up will be good to know.
http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php
http://www.aida64.com/downloads
It is also possible that the build on your laptop might not have as good of a Thermal paste job on your CPU, or some install issue with the cooling system. That would take a trip to Asus to fix - fixing it yourself - opening the top to get access - voids the warranty I am told. Check with Asus if it comes to a question with the cooling system.
You can mask the problem for now by going into the selected Control Panel => Power Options => selected Power plan => Change Plan Settings=> Change advanced power settings => Processor Power Management => set Cooling Policy to Passive for Plugged in and Battery
That will change the response to more heat to reduce CPU speed vs turn on the fan for active cooling - at least it is supposed to 🙂
Let us know what you find!
I was going to say something like this but more along the lines of
"When you boot up a program, I suppose the start-up process is the most intensive part, having to fetch everything and toss it in the ram, and that part is what heats your chip just ever so much that it trips the cooling system to put it back down.
Completely normal I believe. Nothing to worry about. ;d
