Fan Control

[WinterBlue]

I have had my a1260 macbook pro for a while now. It has held up for me through everything, even when I had it with me in an motorcycle accident and escaped with only a broken screen and dinged bottom. But a couple of months ago, the Hitachi HDD died on me and I lost everything, but before this happened I had set the fans to max RPM with SMCFanControl. After swapping HDD's out I didn't have a Mac OSX CD on hand, so I installed windows and used Lobotomo's windows fan control every time I booted up I had to lower the RPM. I have since acquired a disc of mavericks and have installed it, but am failing at finding a way of reducing the RPM. SMCFanControl will not work, nor the mac version of Lobotomo Fan Control, nor the iStat Menus. I am in need of a controller, because my fans run down my battery before I can get three class periods over with and it is very noisy.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[laurihoefs]

Have you tried resetting SMC and PRAM?

 

[WinterBlue]

Yes, I have and nothing has resulted from it.

 

[niteflyr]

Perhaps a bad temp sensor is telling the fans to run.

 

[WinterBlue]

Perhaps a bad temp sensor is telling the fans to run.

Nope. Replaced the sensors and nothing changed. iStat Menus is showing the correct temp ranges for everything.

 

[laurihoefs]

Nope. Replaced the sensors and nothing changed. iStat Menus is showing the correct temp ranges for everything.

And the reported temperatures seem normal?

Can you run AHT by holding D or Option + D when turning the computer on? It might be, that you would need the second disk from the original disk set to run AHT. There's a thread in apple Support Communities, that might be of help, if the second disk is not available.