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Can anyone help me how can I turn off the heating on my Windows 11 machine? Thanks.

The only other explanation I can think of is having a Bitcoin miner installed called System Idle Process.

I don't know when was the last time I heard the fan was stopped, not in the past few days. (Yes, I tried to turn it off and on again.)

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A screenshot showing a Windows 11 machine with a Task Manager and Open Hardware Monitor open. There are a lot of task running but none consumes any significant CPU, the system is 98% idle. The CPU temperature however is around 95 °C (203 °F).

How's the GPU doing? Is it integrated in CPU or dedicated? How close are they? Do they share the heat pipe? Is cooling okay?

You CPU seems to pick up 15W only, which I can't imagine how can do 95°C...

Btw, I'd try procexp as well, it has some more details.

I see virtualbox there as well, is there a VM running? (I'm not sure it's load will reflect on the host's CPU)
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@deejayy It's an HP laptop, procexp says the same, the GPU is integrated, an Intel Iris XE.

There are VMs running and now showing up in task manager - I caught this after posting, paused them, temperature dropped to 60 °C, fan still working.

I'll take apart and clean it next. Thanks for checking and asking!

Ich würde als Erstes das Bios auf Default Einstellungen setzen hatte ich auch schon mal das Problem nach einem update danach war es weg
@heinelo Oh, that's interesting! I'll clean the fan and the inside now and will also give this a try. Thanks!

@heinelo Just an update: I realized I don't have my screwdriver set and any thermal paste w me, so it has to wait. I reset the BIOS, there seems to be no change. After boot, only logging in and starting the hardware monitor and task manager it settles around 48 °C and 2.5 W power consumption for the CPU.

Interestingly the CPU clock is always at the highest.

Also, I found out my Ubuntu VMs have 8% of software interrupt CPU usage constantly, 2000 local timer interrupts per sec.

/cc @deejayy

@heinelo PS: I never had a laptop with lower than 50°C at idle 😀
(I say no to ultra-low-power toy cpus)