Um why is my processor 164 degrees???? Please help

[shmutheprophet]

This has never happened before.

iStat is reporting 164 F and 75 C.

Im not doing ANYTHING CPU intensive. Just listening to music / browsing the web.

[a4abt]

Did you check your Activity Monitor to see if anything is running in background?

[cjduckk]

Some machines just run hot. What type of machine is it? What are the current environmental conditions? If it's a portable, is it sitting on a hard, flat surface or on your lap?

regards,
-c.

[nomar383]

My MBP frequently runs this hot, even when doing almost nothing

[shmutheprophet]

Sorry. Heres the info:

Penryn Macbook Pro 2.4ghz all stock

2GB mem
nvidia geforce 8600GT 256mb
200gb hd

its sitting on a glass desk, closed, plugged into my external CRT monitor.

[nomar383]

How hot is it usually?

[shmutheprophet]

Wow thanks for the advice of checking activity monitor. Oddly finder is using 99% cpu?

[shmutheprophet]

How hot is it usually?

its usually like 45Cish

[nomar383]

its usually like 45Cish

Wow that's cool! Lucky lol. Maybe just a restart? or a Finder relaunch

[cjduckk]

The closed lid is no doubt going to increase the operating temperature, but the culprit is probably the 99% cpu usage from Finder. Does a reboot bring the CPU usage back under control?

regards,
-c.

[a4abt]

you may want to run it with the lid open to allow better ventilation.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

check the console for what's messing up the finder. Repair permissions, restart, etc.

And it's really not recommended to run a laptop closed, of course it's going to get hot if it can't get rid of the heat :rolleyes:

[shmutheprophet]

upon reboot finder stopped using so much CPU and temps returned to normal

[cjduckk]

Score. Probably just a runaway thread. Might want to keep an eye on it for a while to see if the issue returns, though. Cheers! =)

regards,
-c.

[dukebound85]

check the console for what's messing up the finder. Repair permissions, restart, etc.

And it's really not recommended to run a laptop closed, of course it's going to get hot if it can't get rid of the heat :rolleyes:

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

[kdum8]

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

they might be designed to run in clamshell mode but in my experience they take a performance hit, sometimes acting strangely when run like that. (crashes, system unresponsiveness etc). Mine is almost always in clamshell mode but I have more problems with it than when it is open and heat can dissipate more effectively.

[TuffLuffJimmy]

well mb's and mbp's are designed to run in clamshell so im sure apple designed it in such a way to disipate heat effectively......

both the macbook and macbook pro are form over function. They're pretty, but not meant to run in demanding situations. In clamshell mode there is a definite performance hit.