Hello everyone,
I use my iMac a lot and even more these days for audio purpose. When I do so, my good old iMac begins to accuse his age and the cpus are running wild...and not only that, the rest of the components are also getting hot.
With SMC Fan control, I often need to push the fans to the limit when I have a lot of plugins running at the same time. I tested individually the 3 of them and they are all fine, so it is not the source of the problem. 3 months ago I was using around the same amount of plugins without this overheat problem.
3 parts of my iMac have been changed:
The graphic card was a Geforce 8800 and like a lot of you already know, those are a real time bomb. I had to downgrade my video card to the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro(I actually like a lot more this video card)
I upgraded the ram with 2 X 2GB
The Initial Western Digital HDD has been changed for a SEAGATE 2TB model ST2000DL003-9VT166
Also I cleaned all the fans when I changed the HDD in summer 2011.
I performed an extended Hardware Test a couple hours ago and an error came up:
4MOT/2/40000006:HDD-1369
Looks like I got an Hard drive problem. Is it a separate problem? I have no clue for now.
Somebody on another forum wrote the following:
I had a similar problem, turned out that the temperature sensor of the HDD was broken (even though iStat reported CPU fan). The HDD needed to be replaced to fix this (luckily I have AppleCare).
Would it be possible that the problem is coming from there for that error? Is there a way to know more about this?
Maybe I need to change the cpu paste? I really don't know. But now working on my Mac is a little bit stressful since I always need to monitor all the components temperatures with temperature monitor and SMC Fan. When I push the fans really high while composing, the heat of practically everything is between 50 and 60 degrees, cpu often over 55. I fear for the damage that this heat could cause and the sound of these fans is really killing my workflow!
Thanks for your time and future help.
Dom
I use my iMac a lot and even more these days for audio purpose. When I do so, my good old iMac begins to accuse his age and the cpus are running wild...and not only that, the rest of the components are also getting hot.
With SMC Fan control, I often need to push the fans to the limit when I have a lot of plugins running at the same time. I tested individually the 3 of them and they are all fine, so it is not the source of the problem. 3 months ago I was using around the same amount of plugins without this overheat problem.
3 parts of my iMac have been changed:
The graphic card was a Geforce 8800 and like a lot of you already know, those are a real time bomb. I had to downgrade my video card to the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro(I actually like a lot more this video card)
I upgraded the ram with 2 X 2GB
The Initial Western Digital HDD has been changed for a SEAGATE 2TB model ST2000DL003-9VT166
Also I cleaned all the fans when I changed the HDD in summer 2011.
I performed an extended Hardware Test a couple hours ago and an error came up:
4MOT/2/40000006:HDD-1369
Looks like I got an Hard drive problem. Is it a separate problem? I have no clue for now.
Somebody on another forum wrote the following:
I had a similar problem, turned out that the temperature sensor of the HDD was broken (even though iStat reported CPU fan). The HDD needed to be replaced to fix this (luckily I have AppleCare).
Would it be possible that the problem is coming from there for that error? Is there a way to know more about this?
Maybe I need to change the cpu paste? I really don't know. But now working on my Mac is a little bit stressful since I always need to monitor all the components temperatures with temperature monitor and SMC Fan. When I push the fans really high while composing, the heat of practically everything is between 50 and 60 degrees, cpu often over 55. I fear for the damage that this heat could cause and the sound of these fans is really killing my workflow!
Thanks for your time and future help.
Dom
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