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Hey everyone.....
Ok, temps have gotten so much better since I quit iavd. BUT.....now Firefox is freezing up many times a day!!!! Avg. temps ate now 115F to 130F.

Any ideas??

Oh, and I really appreciate all the 'layman's terms' cause without them, I'm clueless as to what's being written!

PLEASE PLEASE help me figure this one out!

Thanks
Dawn
 
I've got a MacBook '09. I don't get concerned till my CPU and heatsinks get above 140 F and my fan above 5000 RPM.

As to why Firefox is freezing...I say, clean re-install. Try that and see. I tried Google Chrome a couple of weeks back and I think it froze.
 
My runs at 180F when I'm do things on my Blackbook. The idle temp is around 160F. It's all normal for Macbooks and Macbook Pros to run hot. If they any part of them gets around 190F then you should start worrying.
 
CaptMurdock said:
I've got a MacBook '09. I don't get concerned till my CPU and heatsinks get above 140 F and my fan above 5000 RPM.

As to why Firefox is freezing...I say, clean re-install. Try that and see. I tried Google Chrome a couple of weeks back and I think it froze.
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Clean & re-install??? How does one go about that?? What abt any upgrades of Firefox during the time I have had it. When we upgrade, does the upgrade include everything, Firefox in it's entirety, or does it only put what is 'new' (upgraded) and just add onto the current Firefox.

If I didn't write that legible....can I delete previous 'issues', for lack of a better word, of each upgrade?

I cannot thank everyone enough, for the temperature issues, since doing what you all suggested, it's now running 120....without the cooling pad. It stopped working....Targus...

I know this is an entirely different issue, but you all came 'to my rescue'....if I upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard, will the latest upgrade of iLife be included with the Snow Leopard???

Thanks again everyone.
Dawn:D
 
For the clean and reinstall he means try setting up Firefox to use a new profile. To do this first quit Firefox (you may want to write this down) then open the hard drive on the desktop. Open Users>YOUR_USER_NAME>Library>Application Support>Firefox>Profiles> In the Profiles folder there should be one folder named something odd. Drag the oddly named folder on to the Desktop, then open Firefox. Firefox will be setup as new. All you settings, bookmarks, add-ons, and history will be gone. If you feel adventurous you can quit Firefox after opening it up a second time and open the new folder in the Profile folder and the original folder that is on your Desktop and copy over and replace the bookmarks.html file. This will give you your bookmarks back.

As for your iLife question, no you will not get the latest version of iLife, which as of this writing is version 2009. You will continue to use your current version of 2008.
 
How to avoid sudden random shutdowns due to overheating...

Just imagine, a shutdown and you lose your work, after you've worked on something for an hour or two.:eek:

Carry around a freezer/icebox and stock it full of icepacks to put underneath (the portable desktop device/fold-up desktop computer) when you use it.
It's the new trend nowadays.:apple:
 
It's HOT again.....take a look at Activity Monitor

Hey everyone,

Remember how you had me quit iavd that had the CPU up pretty high on usage? Well, there's something called fseventsd. It is listed twice and each one has 13%....is that a lot? I went to quit it but it said it was/is owned by root and I needed administrator access to do so....which I am the administrator, but this is the issue I was worried abt before, quitting something that was needed for it to run.

What do you think?? Oh, Firefox has 78% and I only have 5 windows open. Should I quit and restart? Wait, can I just quit the process in Activity Monitor and start over or will that cause any problems??

Thanks
dawn
 
I bought a late 2009 macbook I think Im going to sell it. This is the warmest laptop ive ever used. If Im in my living room using it for a longtime. Im actually covered in sweat from using it. I put a cooler on it. I know I going to take a loss but its not enjoyable to use. I was at starbucks yesterday and the guy sitting next to me had a macbook pro. I asked if it got hot he said yeah really hot. It must be the way it is.The screen is beautiful but dont know if its worth keeping if its not enjoyable to use.
 
13% isn't very much, I would be blaming Firefox with the 78%. I blame Adobe Flash. Try closing the tabs one at a time and seeing if Firefox's usage drops after each closure. Once you find the "bad" site you'll it'll be easier to pin point the problem.


As to heavy2healthy; Hijacking threads isn't a very nice thing to do. But I am glad to see you used the search function rather then making a new thread for an already prevalent thing. Yes, Macbooks and Macbook Pros do run very warm if not hot. Apple laptop have since the G3 days in the late 90's. It's one of the trade offs to using an Apple laptop.
 
Here is what is going to sound like a stupid question, but...

How bright do you keep your screen? Seriously, I think a lot of heat is generated by the inverter and the GPU... maybe if you turned your brightness down, it wouldn't get so hot.

I know, seems silly, but try it anyway. Can't hurt.
 
Intell said:
13% isn't very much, I would be blaming Firefox with the 78%. I blame Adobe Flash. Try closing the tabs one at a time and seeing if Firefox's usage drops after each closure. Once you find the "bad" site you'll it'll be easier to pin point the problem.


As to heavy2healthy; Hijacking threads isn't a very nice thing to do. But I am glad to see you used the search function rather then making a new thread for an already prevalent thing. Yes, Macbooks and Macbook Pros do run very warm if not hot. Apple laptop have since the G3 days in the late 90's. It's one of the trade offs to using an Apple laptop.
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I didnt think I was hijacking the thread making a statement about heat. I apologize.
 
CaptMurdock said:
Here is what is going to sound like a stupid question, but...

How bright do you keep your screen? Seriously, I think a lot of heat is generated by the inverter and the GPU... maybe if you turned your brightness down, it wouldn't get so hot.

I know, seems silly, but try it anyway. Can't hurt.
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She has a Unibody Macbook with LED back lighting. Those kinds of screens make almost no heat and they don't use an inverter.

heavy2healthy; You did nothing wrong. I over stepped myself there. I do now see that it is just a statement, wasn't very together last night.

SMC Fan Control would remove some of the heat. There is no way you can break your Macbook by trying it. So just push buttons with in the app and see if its want you need/want.
 
On thing: When your using SMC Fan Control, you don't have to turn up all the fans (that just wastes power). Just turn up the CPU fan, because it doesn't look like the optical drive or the hard drive are overheating. If your MBP doesn't have 2 or 3 seperate fans, just turn the 1 fan up a bit.
 
DoFoT9 said:
lot of mis information in this thread.

160F is fine. my CD MBP idles at 176°F. :rolleyes: thanks intel!
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Mine only idles at 109 deg F for my Core Duo... at 100% max load (folding/boinc) it hits around 149 deg F. My fans are stock speeds, max load hits about 3000 rpm, 1000 rpm idle.

And seriously, tons of misinformation.

The MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro only has 1 fan, not 2 or 3. There's no 3 in the laptops for Apple. The 15" and 17" models has 2 fans (excluding 2.53GHz/9400M Only uMBP).

For your firefox being such a high load, I'm willing bet it's Flash's fault.
 
ayeying said:
Mine only idles at 109 deg F for my Core Duo... at 100% max load (folding/boinc) it hits around 149 deg F. My fans are stock speeds, max load hits about 3000 rpm, 1000 rpm idle.
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40°C! WHAT what is your ambient temperature around!? thats outrageous! have you replaced thermal paste? mine seriously idles at 80°C, under load the fans will kick in and keep it ~85°C (after it jumps up to ~100°C-212°F)

And seriously, tons of misinformation.
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yea you get that i guess.

The MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro only has 1 fan, not 2 or 3. There's no 3 in the laptops for Apple. The 15" and 17" models has 2 fans (excluding 2.53GHz/9400M Only uMBP).
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the MB and 13" MBP hey? i guess the CPU/GPU are on the same heatsync so it only needs the one fan.

For your firefox being such a high load, I'm willing bet it's Flash's fault.
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yup without doubt!
 
DoFoT9 said:
40°C! WHAT what is your ambient temperature around!? thats outrageous! have you replaced thermal paste? mine seriously idles at 80°C, under load the fans will kick in and keep it ~85°C (after it jumps up to ~100°C-212°F)
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Well it hasn't been extremely hot here lately, around 60-80 deg F ambient. I have replaced my thermal paste already but even without replacing my thermal paste the temperatures weren't as high as yours. Upper 70s deg C under load was about the max. Idle temps were around mid-high 50s deg C

DoFoT9 said:
[quotes]The MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro only has 1 fan, not 2 or 3. There's no 3 in the laptops for Apple. The 15" and 17" models has 2 fans (excluding 2.53GHz/9400M Only uMBP).
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the MB and 13" MBP hey? i guess the CPU/GPU are on the same heatsync so it only needs the one fan.[/QUOTE]

No, only laptops without a dedicated GPU require 1 fan. If there's a dedicated GPU, it requires 2 fans to cool it down. Therefore the MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro only has 1 fan. There was also a 15" uMBP with 2.53GHz and 9400M single shared card. That also only had 1 fan.

All systems with 1 or 2 fans share the same heatsink for GPU, CPU and Chipset.
 
Whats so bad about 40C ? When I'm web browsing with 5 tabs at once my MacBook Pro's heat is about 40C, and sometimes 47C when I'm sitting right next to the fire:D
 
ayeying said:
Well it hasn't been extremely hot here lately, around 60-80 deg F ambient. I have replaced my thermal paste already but even without replacing my thermal paste the temperatures weren't as high as yours. Upper 70s deg C under load was about the max. Idle temps were around mid-high 50s deg C
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must be something really wrong with mine then. ah well.

No, only laptops without a dedicated GPU require 1 fan. If there's a dedicated GPU, it requires 2 fans to cool it down. Therefore the MacBook and 13" MacBook Pro only has 1 fan. There was also a 15" uMBP with 2.53GHz and 9400M single shared card. That also only had 1 fan.

All systems with 1 or 2 fans share the same heatsink for GPU, CPU and Chipset.
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ahh ok that makes sense then :D for some odd reason i forgot the 13" MBP had 9400's :rolleyes:

mrsir2009 said:
Whats so bad about 40C ? When I'm web browsing with 5 tabs at once my MacBook Pro's heat is about 40C, and sometimes 47C when I'm sitting right next to the fire:D
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there is nothing bad about, there is something wrong with 80°C idle though haha.
 
Hey everyone....

Now all of a sudden, it's been super hot...165F. with only 2 windows open. I opened Activity Monitor and that same process, iavd, was using over 70%, so I quit the process. It immediately started dropping the temp.

But now, I'm having issues with Firefox?? It keeps freezing up, ever since this issue. I closed Firefox and opened Chrome, the average temp has been 115F - 120F, with many tabs open.

Now I'm unsure what happened with Firefox. Also, I'm reading all the posts and what is 'thermal paste'.....

I love Firefox, but now I"m wondering if I should delete it all together, then re-install it. If you all think I should, maybe a step by step tutorial for the noob??????? Is deleting it, including the disk image (??)

I read somewhere that even when you delete things your computer still holds on to 'bundles' from whatever it was that you deleted???

UGH.....so frustrating not knowing all this stuff, but I do thank each and every one of you for your help!!!! :cool: :cool:
 
Uninstall iAntiVirus and NEVER install another antivirus program onto your mac again! There are zero, zip, not one single virus for MacOS X! All they do is waste space and resources.

Whatever this crap is, it's making your mac work harder than it ever should for no reason at all! Uninstall that stuff,(use Google to find out how) restart your computer and enjoy your new low temperatures.

Mine stays so cool, sometimes I have to wonder if something's wrong 0.o

Oh boy. Don't tell me you still have the disk images.

This is how you install software on a Mac.

1. Double click the Disk Image (it's basically a virtual CD)
2. The Disk will mount on your desktop (like putting the CD in your CD drive)
3. Double click the mounted disk (the one that appears after you double click the Disk Image)
4. Follow the install instructions (For Firefox, just drag the Firefox icon to the Applications icon)
5. After the install is complete, drag the mounted disk to the trash and it will Eject it (like ejecting the CD)
6. Throw away the Disk Image (there's no need for the CD any more)
7. Empty the trash.
 
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