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Fan going crazy . . .
Hi: My ASUS laptop fan has gone crazy lately. It runs wide open for a half a minute or more then shuts down to an idle, then goes up full blast again after a half a minute or so. It never ramps up or down, it's either idling or wide open. A complete restart doesn't help.
Machine is about 6 months old and runs fine otherwise.
- Task manager shows nothing unusual
- Vents are not blocked
- I've not added or removed any software or changed any settings
- W10, Firefox, etc. are all set to auto update
- The fan cycles up and down even if there are NO PROGRAMS open at all
- I've run numerous malware scans and have cleaned the registry and Firefox; WIndows security says all is good
- Googling has come up with nothing but a lot of work-arounds that are not for the average person
Win version: 18363.778