Help!: Fan started sounding really loud, and MBP feels somewhat hot.

[doxavita]

This is the first time I've had this issue happen.
Basically I was using my MBP as usual. (nothing special), then I noticed the fan sounding way louder than usual, and if I touch the part where the edge of the display top of the keyboard meet, it feels warm. (a bit more than usual I think). Right now it's quiet. Perhaps I ran some program/script that overheated my MBP? What should I do? (already reboot)

 

[GGJstudios]

Install iStat Pro to get accurate readings of your temps, among other things

Your temps are most likely perfectly normal, as searching the forum with MRoogle will reveal:

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[ECUpirate44]

The processor can withstand temps up to 210 degrease. If the mbp was on your lap, it is more likely to heat up faster. Flash content among other things works the processor more thus turning on the fans.

Your MBP is most likely functioning normally.

 

[doxavita]

Flash content among other things works the processor more thus turning on the fans.

Exactly! must have been that!, well, thx!!

 

[lizcat68]

Exactly! must have been that!, well, thx!!

Yeah, that's it. Your MBP's fine, it happens to mine all the time. XD

 

[shakeman0]

That happens to mine as well. It's like the fan kicks into overdrive and the computer heats up enough to like burn my leg.

 

[c1phr]

Just wanted to add real quick too, that the area that you felt (between the keyboard and the screen) is one of the hottest (if not the hottest) part of the outer case.

Otherwise though, I would say it's probably fine.

 

[hcho3]

Hard drive has to go. This will solve heating problems.

I hope apple gets rid of Hard drive on all of their notebooks and move on to complete flash for storage. While I realize that flash is very expensive. We already see 256 GB SSD on MBA. It won't be too long before it reaches 512 GB SSD.

Getting of Hard drives apple and put more fans and bigger battery.

 

[shakeman0]

Just wanted to add real quick too, that the area that you felt (between the keyboard and the screen) is one of the hottest (if not the hottest) part of the outer case.

Otherwise though, I would say it's probably fine.

Yeah, that's the part on mine that heats up to highly uncomfortable temperatures.

 

[GGJstudios]

Hard drive has to go. This will solve heating problems.

The hard drive isn't what generates most of the heat. In fact, of all the components, only the enclosure base is cooler than the hard drive. The GPU and CPU are the big furnaces. Changing from a hard drive to SSD will do little or nothing to solve heat problems.

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[jclardy]

Which model do you have?

My 15" occasionally gets really hot and the fans kick in on full blast, typically only when I am also using the nVidia graphics to run a second display. After a few minutes with the fan though it returns to normal temperatures.