Fan may not even be turning. Either assembly error or defective fan. Do you have airflow coming out the exhaust?
If you’re unsure, a more exotic test is ye ol’ “insense trick” - create smoke with something, hold busy laptop near smoke, see if it sucks it in.
Or the less exotic “wet finger” method - wet your finger, hold near intake or outtake, feel for airflow.
Sorry for the late delay, the fan is definitely turning. I frequently can hear it spin up hard, though some fan-curve tuning may be in order.
Check exhaust. Then finally, you’re just gonna have to either invoke FW support or open her up.
Sorry for totally abandoning this thread, I added some extra thermal compound around the CPU and fixed the intel gpu drivers (for some reason it defaulted to the ancient/broken xorg intel drivers instead of the modesetting drivers) and I haven’t heard it ramp up since then.
Thanks for the update. Glad you got it sorted.
Have the same problem, fans ramping up for a simple Youtube video, NixOS though.
Video through a browser will often create a runaway web process which spikes cpu use. Easiest thing to do is kill the tab and get back to it.
These drivers were also contributing to a variety of graphics crashes on my end. Was it xorg-x11-drv-intel by any chance? Removed it and everything simply worked.
Yep, they’re the old broken ones. My issue was there was OTHER x11 configs in /usr which were calling for the Intel driver, so when I uninstalled them it was tty only until I figured it out.