Laptop fan is going crazy.

[KristianMarc]

Hello.
I own an Alienware laptop. It's been running normally for nearly 2 years.
But when I was playing The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth today, it all of a sudden went full throttle and didn't want to stop even after I exited the game.
So I closed my computer and opened it up, cleaned the fans and exhausts.
Then I opened it back up and it sounded normal. Until I opened Google Chrome, and it went full throttle.
I checked the temperatures and the GPU was some 42-44 Celcius.

What could be wrong?

I downloaded HWINFO, took control of the fan and turned it down to 2900 RPM. Then I let the system take the control back and now it runs normally.

 

[tambeshakunt]

Its probably programs running in the background.

Check task manager to ensure nothing unwanted is running.

Also run a malwarebytes scan , CCleaner and a defrag to make sure.

 

[djfreed]

All alienware users that got an update replacing alienautopsy with dell assist agent are experiencing this right now...heck i just posted a vfew hours asking the same thing about my alienware....pretty much all alienware users are pissed off at dell right now. Go here for some tips to temporally fix the problem: http/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/why-launches-dell-bloatware-in-alien-such-as-dell-support-assist-agent-version-and-dell-data-vault.771147/