Fan is active without reason

Framework Laptop 13
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My fan has been acting up lately. It keeps turning on and off. When it’s on, it’s very loud. This happens even when it’s cold. It’s on for 5 seconds, off for 3 seconds, on for 10 seconds, off for 7 seconds—there’s no discernible pattern. I cleaned the inside of the unit, but it didn’t help. Could a sensor be broken?

Any suggestions welcome

Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (11th Gen Intel® Core™)
(Keyboard: German (1 st Gen), System: Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7)
Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit

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If you run framework_tool --thermal what does it show?

(Referring to the native Framework tool available here: GitHub - FrameworkComputer/framework-system: Rust libraries and tools to interact with the Framework Computer systems · GitHub)

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What BIOS version do you have installed?

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Install s-tui and lm-sensors. Then $sudo s-tui you can check the temps, fan RPM and the CPU power

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BIOS version is 03.07.

s-tui and lm-sensors do not show anything similar to fan rpm. Temperature is 31 °C.