Fan ramping up, not following Framework Control config

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Hi everyone,
I’m writing this because in the past month or so I started having a know issue: my fan ramps up randomly for 1 second, then stops 3 to 5 seconds, then starts again.

This is starting to become too annoying to use my laptop as much as I would want to, but the noise is too much.

I repasted the CPU, I updated the BIOS to the last version (30.03.17 as I’m writing this), I’ve updated my system, but nothing seems to work.

I also installed the Framework Control to try setting the fan speed manually, but it just go to 0 or 100 without following the curve (as you can see in the attached photos), and even when setting it manually to stay at 0% speed it ramps up.

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Here’s my system specs:

  • FW Laptop 13 - AMD 7040 series
  • Windows 11 Pro 25H2
  • BIOS 3.17

I don’t know what to do anymore, I tried searching the forum and found only other people complaining about this but no solution.

If you have a solution, a suggestion or anything that could help me (at least) improve a little bit my situation I would be really grateful about it.

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Hey, I’m sorry that you are having this experience. The laptop would be unusable with the 100pct fan speed noise. This is something that’s worth flagging with support. You may have a faulty fan controller on the hardware side. If it’s even happening when you set it to manual, the only other explanation i can think of other than the hardware fault is some other app using the framework_tool to control the fans and overwriting the configured manual speed

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Hi, thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately the issue doesn’t seem to be related to other softwares using framework_tool because it happened on a fresh Windows 11 install and also on a fresh Arch Linux install.

On linux I managed to make the fan follow a custom curve using fw-fanctrl, on windows I cannot make it follow a custom curve/choose a custom fan speed

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Odd question but do you get it in the UEFI as well?

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Yes, if it’s been on for some time (make 20/30 minutes) it starts making the sound even if I kept it 30 minutes in the UEFI config page