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Snow Leopard & Air Fan Issues
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Mine runs exactly the same way it did before. With Leopard it was pretty much always around 2,500rpm. It's the same with Snow Leopard.
So what's the recommendation, install or wait? Are the folks who are experiencing fans running at full blast installing as an upgrade or are they doing a full clean install? I have a Family Pack coming this weekend and I was planning to upgrade my Air, my 2 Minis and my wife's MacBook.
Installed on my 09 15" MBP, and my GF's 08 Whitebook, fans stayed the same.
around 1995rpm for me (clean install)
around 2001rpm for her (upgrade)
around 1995rpm for me (clean install)
around 2001rpm for her (upgrade)
No fan noise here on my 2.13 GHz rev C with SSD.
Why doesn't everyone report the exact MBA revision, CPU, and drive type so we can determine what is causing the issue.
I have to assume it's either Intel graphics on rev As. Or it's HDDs on rev B/C models? Or I guess it could be CPU clock speed on lower speed models?
Report Form:
AFFECTED: NO
MBA REV: C
CPU: Penryn SL9600 - 2.13 GHz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: UPGRADE
Why doesn't everyone report the exact MBA revision, CPU, and drive type so we can determine what is causing the issue.
I have to assume it's either Intel graphics on rev As. Or it's HDDs on rev B/C models? Or I guess it could be CPU clock speed on lower speed models?
Report Form:
AFFECTED: NO
MBA REV: C
CPU: Penryn SL9600 - 2.13 GHz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: UPGRADE
You are a genius! Just done it on my MacBook White and it's now near silent again, sitting at around 1800rpm with just Safari running.
For those that need to know how to reset the SMC:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
Report Form:
AFFECTED: No
MBA REV: B
CPU: 1.86 Ghz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: Upgrade
AFFECTED: No
MBA REV: B
CPU: 1.86 Ghz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: Upgrade
:-(
Only had my MacBook on for about 15 minutes last night when I reported this had worked. Got up this morning, and after another 15 minutes use the fans are ramping up again, 5800rpm and counting. Judging by the sound, I expect that by the time I finish this post they'll be back up to 6200rpm.
Activity Monitor shows no obvious hogs, and I only have Safari and Mail running, neither of which are using large amounts of RAM or CPU time.
iStat shows a gradual increase in the enclosure base heat but not any obvious increase from any of the other sensors. Edit: It also kicks the arse out of the battery, obviously.
Not sure what is going on with this, but it's definitely affecting many of the portable line up.
Report Form:
AFFECTED: YES
MODEL: MacBook White REV: C
CPU: 2.16 GHz Core2Duo
RAM: 2Gb
DRIVE: 250Gb HD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: UPGRADE
OK, I think Spotlight is to blame here.
For those with runaway fans, using Activity Monitor, check 'All Processes' and see if you have 'mds' and/or 'java' as running processes using up to 70% CPU.
Spotless isn't working with SL yet, so I dragged my root drive into the Privacy Pane of the Spotlight Preferences and almost immediately both the mds and java processes tailed off and the fan has reduced back down to 1800rpm.
Next step is to take the drive out of privacy and see what happens after a full index. If the same thing happens I'll delete the Spotlight database manually through Terminal and let it index again.
I'll report back.
For those with runaway fans, using Activity Monitor, check 'All Processes' and see if you have 'mds' and/or 'java' as running processes using up to 70% CPU.
Spotless isn't working with SL yet, so I dragged my root drive into the Privacy Pane of the Spotlight Preferences and almost immediately both the mds and java processes tailed off and the fan has reduced back down to 1800rpm.
Next step is to take the drive out of privacy and see what happens after a full index. If the same thing happens I'll delete the Spotlight database manually through Terminal and let it index again.
I'll report back.
So, adding to the privacy pane and then removing caused a full index to take place, but strangely, while the indexing was being carried out, the fans didn't go that mental, in fact they weren't running very high at all. It was only when the indexing was finished that the fans ramped up again and the MacBook got really hot.
Next step was manually removing the .Spotlight-V100 folder, rebooting and letting it index again. Exactly the same result.
So it's not the Spotlight indexing being performed that is doing this, it's something funky going on with the finished index itself.
The only thing I can do at the moment is to keep it my boot drive in the privacy pane until a fix is released.
Next step was manually removing the .Spotlight-V100 folder, rebooting and letting it index again. Exactly the same result.
So it's not the Spotlight indexing being performed that is doing this, it's something funky going on with the finished index itself.
The only thing I can do at the moment is to keep it my boot drive in the privacy pane until a fix is released.
Report Form:
AFFECTED: No, not at all
MBA REV: C
CPU: 2.13 Ghz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: Clean, always
AFFECTED: No, not at all
MBA REV: C
CPU: 2.13 Ghz
DRIVE: 128 GB SSD
CLEAN INSTALL OR UPGRADE: Clean, always
Yeah - I have a mini (Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM) and the fan has been very noisy since I upgraded to Leopard. iStat has also been off and on showing "iavd" as running at around 98% process. When it's not showing "iavd" the fan isn't being noisy. I noticed the SMC reset on the link one of you provided is for the laptops - any ideas on a fix for the mini?