So I left my computer on last night, and woke up in the middle of the night to hear the fan running insanely loud - sounded more like a motor than a fan. Shut the computer down and left it until morning. When I boot up the computer now the fan starts almost immediately when the OS comes up. This is how the running temperature currently looks.
Question 1: Looking at the specs in the pic above -- does the CPU temperature look normal for the amount of system resources being used? I had no programs open at the time the picture was taken.
Question 2: I have noticed the problem with coreaudio hanging. Could this be causing high system resource usage? How could I resolve this? I have some leftover processes from old installations of Pro Tools and Flip camera sharing, but don't know how to permanently get rid of these processes - they are autostarting with the computer.
Question 3: Even if I do have a lot of background system usage, the computer is still running hotter than it should be given the circumstances, right? Am I right in thinking this primarily a hardware issue?
I have already reset the SMC and it did not fix the issue.
My computer is still running at about the same specs that you saw in the screenshot.
I have the computer sitting on a couple of books about 6 inches off the bed, so it is not lacking for ventilation.
The fan does not sound insanely loud right now, it sounds normal.
Thanks for your help!
- George
