bizarre laptop fan behaviour

[GreyGeek]

Most CPU & GPU cooling fins and heat sinks in laptops are made of Copper. Works fairly well and is cheaper than Silver or Gold!

Thermal Conductivity, expressed in W/(cmK) @ 1 atm, 25 degrees Celsius:
silver = 4.29
copper = 4.01
gold = 3.17
aluminum = 2.37
nickel = 0.907
lead = 0.353
mercury = 0.0834

"Insyde" is UEFI software. I know absolutely nothing about UEFI BIOS settings. If your documentation doesn't mention setting hardware parameters then ...

[dbaker]

argh, I looked in the user manual and Insyde doesn't seem to let you control the fan. I guess my only option now is to contact the supplier

edit: on second thought, can GRUB help with this at all?

another edit: I've decided my initial observation about the 50C threshold isn't right. Earlier I noticed the fan spinning up when the temperature was in the low 40s, but there was a peak in CPU activity. Bizarre as this may sound, it almost looks like the fan is being controlled by CPU activity rather than temperature, although you'd expect those to go hand in hand. That's not what I'm seeing though O.o