HP 4530s: Fan is Always On even When Laptop/CPU is Idle

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Published on 2011-09-30T03:34:46Z Indexed on 2012/06/17 3:20 UTC
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Just bought an HP 4530s from newegg. Laptop is great, but..

The FAN is always on. I did some googling, found it is a known problem, but no easily googlable solution.

Tried to:

  • Update BIOS to the latest
  • Disable "CPU fan always on when plugged in" BIOS setting
  • Installed Windows 7 Home (came with), Live CDed Ubuntu, Windows XP
  • Spent 2 hours with horrible HP support
  • Some other things that I can't already recall => spent too much time on it

Laptop is not refundable (learned it the hard way, after the fact, by looking at the NEWEGG clever policy that is hidden in "details")

I would really appreciate a workable solution / workaround / hack. The laptop is for my friend who will most likely be running Windows XP/7.

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