I started off by installing Ubuntu Budgie 20.04, then Linux Mint 19.3 and now I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on the laptop X70ID. I tried the proprietary NVIDIA driver as well, but the fan(s), maybe there are two fans in this laptop, keep spinning at maximum.

It should be possible to control the fans, but how? Somebody maybe knows how to deal with this. This is a quite common issue with ASUS laptops, which seems to have been addressed by Ubuntu 20.04. The CPU runs cool, still the fan is at max. I tried several distros on this laptop X70ID, but none has been able to reduce the fan which is constantly at 100% throttle, although not necessary.

Not knowing if a BIOS-upgrade might fix the fan issue, I am still at BIOS #203.ĮDIT: I finally managed to find another AFLASH2.EXE from 2007 which did the job. There seems to be a way to update the BIOS with a DOS-utility AFLASH2.EXE, but it failed on a FreeDOS image on USB-stick made with Unetbootin.

It seems near impossible to update the BIOS, since the BIOS utility Easy Flash v1.14 accepts floppy disks only and wont mount CD-ROM nor USB-HDD. I have searched the internet about how to control the fan speed on ASUS X70ID-TY004V Motherboard K70ID.Ĭurrent BIOS is #203, seems there is a BIOS #205 for K70ID, but I haven't found what the difference is.

Asus fan speed control