Hello, First time here,
I had a problem with my external hard drive, a lacie 2 TB. I've had it since mid summer 2010 and it's worked fine, until today or yesterday. I store my movies and music on it and watch and listen directly from the external.
I was watching movies via front row and it suddenly cut and I got a green screen. I got out of front row, looked at my finder window and the folders of my external displayed the information it held but not the files. Anyways I ejected and plugged it back in and continued watching via VLC, it cut out again and I reset it again.
Today I get a warning when I plug in that same external "USB over current notice" and it doesn't let my external show up. I have a second external a 500gb I use for backups, it works fine in all the ports. I looked around forums and similar problems suggested to reset my PRAM and SMU. As soon as I reset my SMU my fans went into overdrive and still are.
The USB error continued, I reset the PRAM, it continued I did it again just for kicks and now it seems to work, but the fans are still in over drive. I normally use SMCfancontrol to monitor my temp but it doesn't slow my fans down, just reads '32F, 000rpm'.
I just want the fans to stop right now but if anyone knows why the USB error occurred/if it happens again that would be nice too.
And here's the additional info about my mac.
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.29f1
Serial Number (system): QP84203ZZE3
Hardware UUID: 2CEFA062-92AE-57FB-8F27-500CE292BE76
I had a problem with my external hard drive, a lacie 2 TB. I've had it since mid summer 2010 and it's worked fine, until today or yesterday. I store my movies and music on it and watch and listen directly from the external.
I was watching movies via front row and it suddenly cut and I got a green screen. I got out of front row, looked at my finder window and the folders of my external displayed the information it held but not the files. Anyways I ejected and plugged it back in and continued watching via VLC, it cut out again and I reset it again.
Today I get a warning when I plug in that same external "USB over current notice" and it doesn't let my external show up. I have a second external a 500gb I use for backups, it works fine in all the ports. I looked around forums and similar problems suggested to reset my PRAM and SMU. As soon as I reset my SMU my fans went into overdrive and still are.
The USB error continued, I reset the PRAM, it continued I did it again just for kicks and now it seems to work, but the fans are still in over drive. I normally use SMCfancontrol to monitor my temp but it doesn't slow my fans down, just reads '32F, 000rpm'.
I just want the fans to stop right now but if anyone knows why the USB error occurred/if it happens again that would be nice too.
And here's the additional info about my mac.
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.29f1
Serial Number (system): QP84203ZZE3
Hardware UUID: 2CEFA062-92AE-57FB-8F27-500CE292BE76