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Hi,
i have installed Kodi on my Asus Chromebox in dual boot. The system works fine however i realise that the cpu temperature increase up to 90 C and i cannot hear any Fan (i am actually confused because initially i thought that the Asus is Fanless but on the site i found people saying they can hear the fan running). Under Openelec it is possible to verify the fan speed? can be configured in Kodi?
Thanks!
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2015-03-26, 01:31
(This post was last modified: 2015-03-26, 01:37 by DocG.)
When do you see temperatures of 90C, i.e. doing what exactly? That sounds rather high even with the fan off.
Edit: And yes, the Chromebox does have a fan.
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it got to 90 deg after i had installed some skins and i was trying to use a plugin that was streaming live television. The plugin was hanging and the box was shutting down (more crashing), this happened few time and i realized that the box was hot. I did check at that time the temperature and i saw it ramping up. I re installed the box without the skin and i kept the original one and re installed just the plugin i wanted. Now if i monitor the CPU it is still going quite high in temperature but not at that level, however i saw it at 70 Celsius and i cannot hear the fan noise.... that is why i am quite worried.
So i think was a combination of the Skin with something else because i realize another user on the forum had high cpu with different skins.
THanks!
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Well, there is chromebox with fan (Intel i3 CPU) as well as fanless chromebox (Intel Celeron 2955U Processor), so it depends which one do you have...
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Thanks everyone, do you know if there is a way to see the fan speed under openelec? i cannot hear it and seems not blowing from the back... i was actually thinking to open it and check if there is a fan or not.. to confirm for everyone. However i have the celeron.
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if the temp is above 60°C and you can't hear/feel the fan, then something is wrong (ie, potentially defective). The programmed fan control should prevent the CPU from reaching temps which would cause crashing or thermal shutdown. I live in a hot climate too and have had no issues over the past year.
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I can send it back if it is defective, i did try just now to "heat it up" and i saw the temperature raising up to 69C and i was not able to hear any noise or air coming out from the back. any test i can do before saying is defective?
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pretty sure you just did one
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If fan control is not exposed to system, could we do fan monitoring at least by looking into EC logs maybe or something?