Unusually High Fan Speeds in iMac G5

Try opening Activity Monitor and see if anything is running with very high CPU usage. Sometimes programs can run out of control and the high CPU usage makes the fans come on.

Funny you metion this, I was using my iMac tonight and, for seemingly no reason, my hard drive fan came on. I check on iStat pro and it was going at 5500rpm approx. The optical was only going at 999rpm and the cpu fan was also going at 999rpm. The fan gradually slowed down and is now spinning normally - 1199rpm.

I did notice that my CPU A was at about 50 degrees c. Not sure if this had anything to do with it.

I don't think it's anything to worry about....

I posted some screenshots too, do your temps look similiar to these?

ProstheticHead said:

Yeah, my temps look about the same as yours. Bizarre. Ah well, maybe my iMac was trying to tell me it wants to run some more intense apps.

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I found out what kicked mine into overdrive - Colloquy. It's an IRC app and it was using 90% CPU at the time. I got rid of it.

Just think, it'd be worse if the fans weren't coming on

FAR OUT!!! youve downlaoded 4gb in one day!!!!!! wats ur downloads per month!

i ahvent even done that in 13 days....

your computer seems pretty fine to me., judging from the picture it seems ok.. but if the hdd is at like 3000 all the time..thats a bit wierd.. do u reckon there could be lots of dust built up or something??

DoFoT9 said:

FAR OUT!!! youve downlaoded 4gb in one day!!!!!! wats ur downloads per month!

i ahvent even done that in 13 days....

your computer seems pretty fine to me., judging from the picture it seems ok.. but if the hdd is at like 3000 all the time..thats a bit wierd.. do u reckon there could be lots of dust built up or something??

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My downloads per month.....not sure Perhaps 10 - 15gb.. Sometimes I'd have downloads going all the time, then I mightn't download anything for weeks.