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    Anyone experiencing high fan noise while idle?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Djommar, May 9, 2017.

  1. Djommar

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    Left my laptop on overnight and woke up to a hot keyboard and loud fan noise. I put it in balanced mode before I slept. Is this common?

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    Djommar, May 9, 2017
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    I was not paying attention
     
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    Hot keyboard would indicate something is taxing the GPU and CPU, I would dig a little deeper. Its not the power mode. High fan noise and hot would mean the fans are on to cool the system and not a glitch.
     
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    Sorry late reply I managed to fix it! It was a stupid mining malware that was eating at my CPU. Cleaned it and haven't had a problem since. Thank you and take care all!

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    Djommar, Jun 21, 2017
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    How did it get in the first place? Invest in 3rd party AV with Internet security or similar to protect you from malwares.
     
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    Not sure TBH probably something I download although the laptop is pretty clean. I just bought malwarebytes hopefully shouldn't have this problem again.

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    Djommar, Jun 27, 2017
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    Try a LiveCD AV like Kaspersky rescue disk or Dr Web Live CD
     
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