MacBook Air Fan Issues

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  1. jakesaunders27, Mar 14, 2013

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    Hi,
    This morning i opened the lid of my macbook air (base model 2012) and i heard the fan making an absolute racket, but it didn't sound like when my fan has kicked in before it almost sounded like a hard disk spinning so it downloaded smcfancontrol and saw that it was running at 2000-2400 rpm so then i put it up to around 4000rpm and back down again and the noise stopped, now its its silent self. is this something i should get looked at or just ignore?

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  2. Macman45, Mar 14, 2013

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    Try re-setting the SMC:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
     
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  3. justperry, Mar 14, 2013

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    Might be some debris inside, after you set it to Maximum it cleared and it's gone, that's what I think.
     
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  4. jakesaunders27, Mar 14, 2013

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    yeah thats what i thought, and just about to reset the smc now
     
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