Aura - Loud fan and then crash

I had a situation where my air cooled CPU fan burned out after over speeding due to accumulated dust on the inside fins next to the fan restricted airflow causing it to speed up like crazy. If I would have removed the fan to get to the inner fins rather than just cleaning the outside cooling fins it wouldn't had happened to me.

Fans usually don't speed up like crazy unless they don't have access to air to push. Without free air flow they over speed like a hair dryer does if you hold your hand over the input vent.

There are smarter people than me on here that should be able to provide with guidance in how to use CPUID HWMonitor and other tools to assess the root cause of your issue.

The crashing should be recorded in system events and it would be interesting to know the temperatures that were being reached on the CPU for example at time of crash.

Since you are a verified customer with life time support I would be calling Digital Storm Monday for advice unless one of the Wizards here solves your issue before tomorrow.

Good luck in getting this figured out!

   

    

Especially for a laptop, which you have learned runs hotter than any desktop, the optimal thermal specs can be defined as any temps that don't occasion shutdown. There is so much variation possible depending on the parts, the uses, and, yes, the cleanliness, that that definition fits IMHO. You should be satisfied with anything under about 80C, 70 would be much better, but be prepared for temps to occasionally sneak higher. Under 90C may not be optimal, but it will probably still work.