macbookpro with dead sensors and fans?

[greengeorge]

hi i just brought home a C2D 2.33Ghz Mbp yesterday and quite happy with mine

no apparent deadpixels, excellent illumination balance, no squeaky keys, slight gap on the left side when latched but its okay, hot but tolerable, no fan noises

the thing is, i installed the istat pro widget (3.2) to check out the temperature and fan levels, the weird thing is, it doesnt show up on the widget

under display > temperatures , it only says "No Sensors Found"
same goes under fans > "no fans found"

okay now im worried... did my mbp came with with broken sensors and no fans????

cause come to think of it, i havent heard the slightest bit of any noise at all let alone fan noise,
(except for when waking up the superdrive kinda makes a scifi-bionic-arm like sound... is that normal??)

please help,
ps. it came with mac os x 10.4.8 if that makes any difference

 

[jimN]

Run it til it gets hot. If it melts a hole through the floor then it doesn't work.

 

[eluk]

I have just installed it on my MBP C2D and the temp shows OK, but under settings it is also No Fans Found.
The font is too small for me and so it'll get removed. Correct glasses and it's fine.

 

[greengeorge]

Run it til it gets hot. If it melts a hole through the floor then it doesn't work.

i tried running photoshop cs2 (just light work havent gotten around to the big stuff) on my lap although it is hot but its okay for me, ill try some heavy stuff later tonight and see if it fries my lap

shoudve wrote the subject : "iStatPro : MBP w/ Dead Sensors and Fans?"

anybody know any other way to check the c2d mbp fans and sensors

 

[larsf]

Try smcFanControl
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049
It works for me but the widgets dont.

 

[NJuul]

try to open two terminal shells and write:

yes > /dev/null

in both. It will run your CPU to 100%, and then your fans should kick in quite rapidly.

 

[EvryDayImShufln]

Yes you need smcfancontrol as the poster 2 posts above me stated. As for the fans, mine are not detected either, any way to fix this?

 

[dannyss]

I think it noted on the iStat site, it does not detect fan speed on the C2D yet.

 

[greengeorge]

I think it noted on the iStat site, it does not detect fan speed on the C2D yet.

thx for pointing that out, it seems there are plenty of people with the same problem... phew...

anyway, any of you hear the same roboty (i dont know how to describe it) everytime the c2d mbp wakes up from sleep? i know its coming from the super drive cause it makes the same sound everytime i press eject without a cd in it, with a cd it makes a longer nastier noise...

if thats normal it looks like i got myself a keeper here