[Matt Devo]

Hi Matt,

I am hoping you or anyone can help me out. I had a Asus Chromebox that I set up with Openelec and low and behold my dad liked the setup so much that he took it .

I got a used HP Chromebox and installed Openelec but when I booted the system up I noticed the fan noise right away. Even without a video playing I can hear the darn thing. Is there any way to decrease it in the bios or anywhere for that matter? Any help is greatly appreciated.

sadly no, the temperature thresholds and fan speeds are baked into the firmware at compile time. I've optimized them to minimize fan noise as much as possible while still having a reasonable safety factor, but there's nothing I can do to overcome a deficient hardware design. There's always the option to override the defaults using OS tools/applications, but that's less than optimal. Sell the HP and get an Asus IMO.