Fans Running Hard

[oe36]

Today I booted up my Lenovo Legion 5I in Manjaro and ran steam. My fans were running very hard. This has never happened before. Checked CPU load, GPU load, temps, etc and all seemed fine and not sure why fans had to run so hard.

Also booted in Windows and did not have the same experience. (EDIT - disregard that last sentance, happening in Windows as well. May be a hardware issue)

Is there a guide on how to check / setup fans in Manjaro? I am wondering if something became misconfigured.

Thank you.

[Kobold]

The way you describe your problem, it looks indeed like a hardware issue.

A system report shows also your Temps, so if you could check your system settings while running steam with your noisy fans, could be helpfull.

inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width

Repasting Termal Paste is my first guess.

To reduce Fanspeed doesn’t sound like a good idea, when you normally have a silent system while running steam, so the additional fan speed probably prevent your system from a meltdown.

HTOP will show the system usage btw.

[oe36]

Thanks for the replay Kobold. I will get you the inxi info this afternoon. I can mention that the CPU usage widget on KDE was saying CPU usage less than 1 pct and GPU temp was 37C so something seems odd.

This started happening this morning. Last night, I put the machine to “sleep” while booted into Manjaro and when I woke up this morning, the battery was fully dead. Not sure if that could have contributed to the fans going haywire. Seems coincidental to me. I will get you the requested info later this afternoon.

Thank you.

[oe36]

@Kobold

inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width

Here is the data from the inxi query…

System:
Kernel: 6.11.2-4-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11-x86_64
root=UUID=dbcb9150-6182-41c0-8f44-7d25537ac315 rw quiet splash
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.6.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82WK v: Legion Pro 5 16IRX8
serial: Chassis: type: 10 v: Legion Pro 5 16IRX8
serial:
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76461 WIN
serial: part-nu: LENOVO_MT_82WK_BU_idea_FM_Legion Pro 5
16IRX8 uuid: UEFI: LENOVO v: KWCN46WW date: 07/04/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 77.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 77.2/80.0 Wh (96.5%)
volts: 17.3 min: 15.4 model: Sunwoda L22D4PC0 type: Li-poly serial:
status: full cycles: 67
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510
serial: charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.36 GiB used: 8.6 GiB (56.0%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
Device-1: Controller0-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR5 detail: synchronous
size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 5600 MT/s actual: 4800 MT/s volts: curr: 1
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
part-no: M425R1GB4BB0-CWMOD serial:
Device-2: Controller1-ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR5 detail: synchronous
size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 5600 MT/s actual: 4800 MT/s volts: curr: 1
width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
part-no: M425R1GB4BB0-CWMOD serial:
CPU:
Info: model: 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700HX bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 13 level: v3 note: check built: 2022+
process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xB7 (183) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x129
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 10 cores: 16 threads: 24 mt: 8 tpc: 2
st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.4 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32
KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 14 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 30 MiB desc: 1x30 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2242 min/max: 800/4800:5000:3700 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 2242 2: 2242 3: 2242
4: 2242 5: 2242 6: 2242 7: 2242 8: 2242 9: 2242 10: 2242 11: 2242 12: 2242
13: 2242 14: 2242 15: 2242 16: 2242 17: 2242 18: 2242 19: 2242 20: 2242
21: 2242 22: 2242 23: 2242 24: 2242 bogomips: 110616
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Gen-13 process: Intel 7 (10nm) built: 2022+
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a788
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA AD106M [GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
driver: nvidia v: 550.120 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+
status: current (as of 2024-09) arch: Lovelace code: AD1xx
process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2860 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-11:7 chip-ID: 04f2:b7b6
class-ID: fe01 serial:
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 2560x1600 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris
surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.4-arch1.0.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-S)
device-ID: 8086:a788 memory: 7.5 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: 10 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 550.120 device-ID: 10de:2860
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a50 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA AD106M High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22bd class-ID: 0403
Device-3: GN Netcom Jabra Link 380 driver: jabra,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3.1:5
chip-ID: 0b0e:24c7 class-ID: 0300 serial:
API: ALSA v: k6.11.2-4-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a70 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 4000 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp12s0 state: down mac:
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:9 chip-ID: 8087:0033
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.86 TiB used: 447.95 GiB (15.3%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL2
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: EL1QGXA7 temp: 33.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 4B2QJXD7 temp: 32.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1
size: 114.6 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2
spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial:
fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%) used: 447.95 GiB (24.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
uuid: dbcb9150-6182-41c0-8f44-7d25537ac315
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 292 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 368C-DD8F
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 453 Power: uptime: 3m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.11 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 2024 pm: pacman pkgs: 1991 libs: 535 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 33 Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1 alt: 13 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.36

66C on the CPU didn’t seem too terribly high to me. Fans were rediculous.

Let me know if you see anything… Thank you.

[Wollie]

Have you checked your firmware settings?

[oe36]

Think I figured it out. I’m going to own this one since folks probably need a good laugh anyway. I mentioned the battery died while in sleep mode. Further disclosure, I was nodding off last night while using the machine.

There is an undocumented feature that Fn + Q sets your fan mode to “quiet”, “auto” or “let’s see if we can get this laptop to levitate” mode.

I’m pretty sure while drifting in and out of consciousness I must have bumped that feature. A duckduck search helped me find the resolution.

God always finds a way to keep us humble. Thanks for your responses.