Hi. I’m loving my new Minibook X U300 but I’m running into an issue where the fan is kicking in at a pretty low threshold (CPU temp 45 degrees, chassis 28 degrees). It also goes straight to 100% without activating on a curve.
Is there any way I can raise or control this? If not, could a BIOS update be issued to address this? Thank you.
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You can ask customer service.
Tragically, this issue is likely tied to using Windows. Unfortunately, even at idle, Windows hogs CPU at 20% to 50% usage. If little to no fan usage is desired, I recommend Linux. I have the N100 Minibook X running Arch Linux + Sway, and at idle, the meter registers 0% usage on the CPU which allows the fans to turn off for long periods while idle, but even when doing heavy tasks such as youtube, heavy browsing, software development, office apps, or photo editing, the fans almost never kick on. I can get the fans to really rip when I load up local AI and ask it do something, that and compiling software is about the only way to really get the fans going in Linux. You can try Linux with no changes to your existing Windows install via a USB boot using Rufus or the like. You might even like it. 
On Fedora, mate. I believe this one is tied to thermals and is fairly independent of OS. At about 45 degrees (so under any significant load) the fan goes full speed. There are community workarounds which I may try, but I’m just registering this with CHUWI in case they have a better fix for this, especially as what I have is a newer device.
Open a terminal and run btop to see what processes are keeping the CPU busy. My mind is boggled that Linux would cause the CPU to run up at idle. Maybe I got lucky with the thermal solution on my N100 Minibook (only 6 watts after all).
Hope this helps
Not related to your issue.. but is the display refresh rate still stuck at 50 hz?
Not related to your issue.. but is the display refresh rate still stuck at 50 hz?
I am curious about the refresh rate as well. If running a classic desktop, $ sudo xrandr in the terminal will give details about the display including refresh rate. Unfortunately, with Wayland, there is no universal command, but the refresh rate can typically be found in the monitor settings.
Yep, 50Hz. Standard N150 fixes still apply.
For Linux, I followed the guide here: chuwi-minibook/docs/vbt-patch.md at main · fstanis/chuwi-minibook · GitHub. I don’t have the laptop handy yet, but I applied some boot settings to GRUB. Will update in the future with the specific lines. I will note that the laptop didn’t display correctly before fully updating Fedora, so do that before anything else.
It’s okay, I’m a fairly seasoned Linux user, thanks.