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LastDemocratInSC

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5. Run Task Manager and sort the running processes by CPU usage percentage.

Reply to Redleg (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 07:19 PM

Jan 2025

Increased fan speed is normally a response to CPU loading. A common offender is the process that automatically installs Windows updates although other processes can cause it too. Any process hogging 20% or more of the CPU would be a suspect.

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PC fan revving when idle (Windows 10) [View all] Redleg Jan 2025 OP

Fan going bad? What's the temp inside the case? FSogol Jan 2025 #1

Ask AI, it knows more than us now. bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #2

I pasted the OP subject and text into ChatGPT JoseBalow Jan 2025 #4

Thanks- I had already used ChatGPT to provide info Redleg Jan 2025 #10

a few seconds, an hour? nt msongs Jan 2025 #3

Run Task Manager and sort the running processes by CPU usage percentage. LastDemocratInSC Jan 2025 #5

This is the first thing to check AZJonnie Jan 2025 #7

Thanks for the advice Redleg Jan 2025 #13

Use compressed air and spray away any accumulated dust Ponietz Jan 2025 #6

Always good general advice, but that is contraindicated as 'the problem' by this passage AZJonnie Jan 2025 #8

Check processes. usonian Jan 2025 #9

LOL- I have checked all that Redleg Jan 2025 #12

Nor bitcoins usonian Jan 2025 #14

Thanks everyone for the suggestions- I appreciate it Redleg Jan 2025 #11