A
couple of months ago, around August-September I believe, we got a new model of
Fujitsu Mini-PCs – the Esprimo Q958. We had already been using the Q957
without any troubles for a while so we did not expect to face any problems with
this new iteration either. Besides a newer CPU generation (Core i5 8th
Gen compared to Core i5 7th Gen) nothing had really changed, we
thought.
But
soon after deploying a number of those new Fujitsu Esprimo Q958 machines to our
users we got weird reports of machines not fully powering down when shutting
down Windows.
The
machines would simply stay powered on when you pressed the “Shut down” button
in Windows. The machines would keep running, with power management disabled,
and thus the CPU would soon get warmer and warmer, making the fan turn on to
100%, which in turn resulted in a lot of noise thanks to the very small fan.
