# Silly fan behaviour **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Support\ **Tags:** other-issues, amd-7040\ **Created:** [September 27, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/silly-fan-behaviour/58332 "2024-09-27T21:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JL\_Framework](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/jl_framework/32/28846_2.png) [@JL\_Framework](https://community.frame.work/u/JL_Framework)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/silly-fan-behaviour/58332/1 "2024-09-27T21:29:23Z")
Today I received my Framework 13-AMD (specifically, the processor is the 764OU). The BIOS is version JFP30.03.05. (Perhaps an update is available but, as I proceed to explain, I’m not in a position to update it yet.) So far - because of nonsense with a locked disk that is not relevant here - I had used the computer only when (1) booted to a minimal Linux distribution (the one that comes with the ‘sedtool’ ISO image) and (2) when running the ‘live’ version of Linux Mint. But in those environments I have noticed that, when seemingly under little load, the fan will go from being off to going loudly, and then go off again, all in a period of approximately _0.5 (half) a second to 1 (one) second_. Clearly that behaviour is pointless, distracting and will needlessly stress the fan. I’m new; is there a known problem with fans? [This post](http://community.frame.work/t/amd-fw13-fan-behaviour-and-ramp-up-times/50096/17) seems to suggest that there is. ---
**Author:** ![JL\_Framework](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/jl_framework/32/28846_2.png) [@JL\_Framework](https://community.frame.work/u/JL_Framework)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/silly-fan-behaviour/58332/3 "2024-09-28T08:18:27Z")
Thanks. I should have added this, though: _the silly behaviour occurs even when looking at the BIOS_. So there _is_ a problem with the fan. Still: if that problem is confined to the BIOS (and/or unsupported distros, or ‘live’ versions of distros), then (at least for some use cases), the problem will not be that bad. ---
**Author:** ![JL\_Framework](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/jl_framework/32/28846_2.png) [@JL\_Framework](https://community.frame.work/u/JL_Framework)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/silly-fan-behaviour/58332/4 "2024-09-28T16:49:59Z")
It seems that the silly fanning (as I propose to call it) extends to at least some distros. One is Mint, as I have discovered. But even Fedora, which is an officially supported distro. On the problem within Fedora, and for a seemingly Linux-wide fix, see [this post](http://community.frame.work/t/fw-16-review-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/56831/18).