exhaust fan..

[newbie2008]

i have that istat pro widget and last night my exhaust fan was running really high 4000rpm-6000rpm. and i was in a quiet room and it was really loud. usually my fans run soooo quietly... the only applications i had running was safari, pages, and airport is on. that was it.
usually when i have only those apps open and airport on it will run around 1200-1300rpm.
at the moment it's 2150rpm and i have only safari open and airport on.
what's going on and how to i make the exhaust fan go lower?

 

[Eidorian]

What websites were you viewing? Was there anything flash intensive?

 

[newbie2008]

What websites were you viewing? Was there anything flash intensive?

just the muse messageboards, gmail, my class schedule online.

so no nothing flash intensive. i did have mtvu on in my widgets but i got rid of it...and my exhaust fans went way lower of course and then out of nowhere it went up to 6000rpm last night after i trashed it. and it's still fairly high 3000rpm now.

 

[newbie2008]

also i looked at cpu process:
it's saying dashboard applications 95%-100%

 

[dubhe]

is your cpu temperature sufficiently high to warrant the fan speed? My macbook adjusts the fan speed to keep the CPU around 70 degrees C when working hard. You can download a widget to tell you the temp

 

[karenflower]

It's likely that Dashboard is your problem then - are there any other widgets you suspect that could be causing it?

You can also try restarting it by typing 'killall Dock' in Terminal.

 

[newbie2008]

thanks for the advice...
and i'll try what you advised 'karenflower' after i make a visit to my apple store tomorrow afternoon... as i can no longer get into my computer...yea kind of locked myself out...that's what i get for messing w/ hard drive settings...haha...
my MB is still a baby and already i'm messing things up...
<--bad parent...

lol

i'm on my PC now ...
i'm missing my MB a lot right now...agh

 

[karenflower]

Haha, oh dear! All new parents are bad at first, right? I'm sure you'll get the hang of it soon!

Good luck with getting it fixed tomorrow.