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July 31

Edge closes when I type in address bar

Edge Version 84.0.522.49 (Official build) (64-bit) on Win10 Home version 1903 OS build 18362.959, Google set as default search engine. When I type in the address bar to search, Edge has today (in the last few hours) started closing when I type the second letter. Any ideas? Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 00:11, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE - if I turn off "show me search and site suggestions" in settings/privacy and services/address bar then it stops crashing. DuncanHill (talk) 00:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Laptop fan

Hi. I have a dell insprion 15 5000 series, it reads as 50 degrees Celsius on a cpu temperature, but it says the fan is at 2975 rpm, but it is really 0 rpm, is this normal for the fan not to be on, I am just running the internet. I use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:19, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The CPU temperature is not very high. So, it may be normal. Ruslik_Zero 11:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Run Prime95. See Prime95#Use for stress testing and Hardware stress test. If the fan doesn't kick in, you have a dead fan. If it does, then it just means that your normal use doesn't generate enough heat to require the fan to turn on. Related: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrhLBSZOKI ]]. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:01, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a good idea to run a stress test at normal (full stress) settings on a computer with a possibly dead fan. If you're not observant, the first clue that the fan is dead might be the CPU dying, which is a much more expensive repair. 93.136.9.200 (talk) 17:46, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's only true of ancient hardware. A Dell Inspiron 15 5000 will thermal throttle if the fan isn't working. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Install the package lm-sensors and run "sudo sensors-detect". Most likely it's reading some other sensor and thinking it's the fan speed (or your fan is really, really quiet). Then try to slowly ramp up CPU usage until the temperatures rise and the fan kicks in. Take a look at what temperatures and fan speeds are changing, you will probably have some phantom temperatures in addition to your phantom 2975 rpm fan. 50C is a reasonably low temperature for CPU and the fan is probably not set to kick in at that temperature. If temperatures go over 70-80C without the fan, then the fan is probably dead. It seems that your laptop has an Intel CPU. Intel CPUs can run a long time at 80-100C but it's a bad idea, it makes them wear out quickly. 93.136.9.200 (talk) 17:46, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So, I have a temp app called 'Hardware Sensors Indicator' and it says the fan is running, but I don't hear it, I am using a keyboard cover, would this cause problems? --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:29, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

reading 70 degrees now, fan still not being heard, laptop is getting hot when I touch it --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:58, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your fan isn't working. :( Normally, when I advise someone about things like this I start by looking for a used laptop. Many times you can get a replacement for an old laptop for a hundred bucks. Yours is fairly recent and a used replacement will run $800 to $1200, so that's out. Here is a replacement fan for $20,[1] but you would have to be (or have a fiend who is) comfortable with taking a laptop apart and would have to make sure the replacement is the right part for yor exact model.

It looks like your options are:

Fix it yourself if you can.
Hire someone to fix it (get a quote from Dell. Maybe it won't be too bad.)
Buy a replacement (possibly newer/better).
Live with it for now.

--Guy Macon (talk) 01:17, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have Geek Squad Protection for my laptop, I'll run more tests for the fan, and if it's broken, I am gonna send it in, and fix some other issues with my laptop. I do want to note, that when It said the fan was 3000 rpm, I heard very little/very small fan noise, you'd have to go very close, like put your ear on the vent, to just hear it, back when I used Windows, and ran Geofs, the fan would blast, not on Ubuntu, when I run geofs, the fan isn't even on. Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:22, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's actually good news. This problem is usually a bad fan but occasionally it is the motherboard not sending any electricity to the fan. From your description, I think you have a bad fan bearing with lots of friction that is stopping it from reaching a high RPM. Should be an easy fix for the Geek Squad. --Guy Macon (talk) 01:38, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know of any intel testing software from intel for Ubuntu? Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:50, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can I make the don't show mobile site button stay don't show forever unless pressed again?

On Android/Chrome. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 17:07, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]