#Fans turning on and off repeatedly on balanced mode

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placid lark
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Model: Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 8 (16" rtx 4060 laptop GPU)

The issue: for the past 3 days, my fans have been turning on and off repeatedly while in balanced mode or quiet mode, and that doesn't happen after switching to performance mode in Lenovo Vantage. I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and have no updates currently for windows or Lenovo vantage. The fans turn off, then after a minute or two burst back on and stay on for another couple minutes, then back off, rinse and repeat.

fair ermine
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Did you monitor the temp and RPM ?

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And from next time , follow the format of posting in here

placid lark
fair ermine
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LLT is vantage replacement

placid lark
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I'll check that out right now, thanks

fair ermine
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get the latest beta from here

placid lark
fair ermine
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these both softwares does the similar things so there can be contradiction having or running at the same time .

placid lark
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noted on that, thank you

placid lark
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I have installed LLT, and it seems the fans are turning off once the temps hit 58 or higher, and turn off after it gets to 57

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and that is happening way too often

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so its looping basically

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turning on and off every couple minutes

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switching to quiet mode makes the fans run at a higher rpm for some reason

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only stable one is performance mode, so i don't know what is wrong

fair ermine
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And
Windows power mode to
"Best efficiency"

placid lark
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Done I did that

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Could something be broken in the balanced mode?

fair ermine
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Nope

placid lark
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I would much rather be in balanced mode all the time though if it wasn't doing this, and performance while gaming

fair ermine
placid lark
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Which should be the opposite if it is "quiet" haha

fair ermine
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Try soft ec reset

vale deltaBOT
placid lark
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I'll try that now

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I switch back to balanced mode and try that?

fair ermine
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Soft ec reset automatically switch power mode to balanced .

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Its a indication that ec reset was successfully done

placid lark
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Oh ok then

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I have done the soft ec reset

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Back in balanced mode

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Now to wait and see

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Thanks for your help by the way

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Unfortunately the issue still persists

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However, only when AC is plugged in

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When not plugged in, the fans turned off and didn't come back on

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Probably because the temps didn't go higher than 57

fair ermine
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Definitely a very odd behaviour

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You can try to upgrade bios version if newest is available for your model

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Otherwise you can downgrade if not

vale deltaBOT
fair ermine
placid lark
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I have the latest bios and Intel ME installed

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And latest Nvidia drivers

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This problem arose a while after the bios/UEFI updates

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So it might be unrelated

fair ermine
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Sure but we can try atleast

placid lark
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I have reset the bios to it's default settings

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Same problem

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I will try to downgrade the bios

placid lark
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Bios has been downgraded

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Will check if the issue persists

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aaaand it persists

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I'm starting to think that it is currently just not too cold or too hot

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Or something

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Not too cold that they stay off

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And not too hot that they stay on

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I'm talking about ambient temperature affecting the CPU

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The laptop is new, not even 3 months old so it can't be dust

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So basically it's juggling between 57 and 60

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Because it is not turning on and off in set time intervals

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Sometimes it takes longer to turn off and longer to turn on

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But I do think that the repeated starting and stopping of the fans is not healthy

placid lark
fair ermine
fair ermine
placid lark
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This wasn't happening from the get go

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The laptop was normal up until 4 days ago

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The only thing that has changed since 4 days ago is that I travelled

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And changed the grill of my laptop to the blue one that came in the box

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And I deionized the screwdriver just in case

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But true it is pretty weird