I bought a 27" iMac (Mid 2011) without a HDD online. Installed a spare 250GB I had laying around and I've been using it for a couple days, no issues. Today I installed Windows 7 x64 and noticed the fans are going crazy. I installed all the drivers and the computer was still pretty loud. I rebooted into Lion and it was fine.
I read online that the hard drive needs to be a genuine Apple hard drive for the temperature sensor to work. Is this true on this model? Also why is it only happening on Windows and not Lion?
Computers under warranty till 2014. Unfortunately, I can't do anything without the original HDD. The guy I bought the system from did not have the original HDD so I'm out of luck there. I bought a 1TB WD WD1001FALS HDD which is the model number of the original drive in the iMacs. Would this possibly fix the issue or do I also need the Apple firmware on the drive?
Mid 2011 iMac 27"|i5 2.7GHz|4GB 1333MHz|Radeon 6770M 512MB|
I read online that the hard drive needs to be a genuine Apple hard drive for the temperature sensor to work. Is this true on this model? Also why is it only happening on Windows and not Lion?
Computers under warranty till 2014. Unfortunately, I can't do anything without the original HDD. The guy I bought the system from did not have the original HDD so I'm out of luck there. I bought a 1TB WD WD1001FALS HDD which is the model number of the original drive in the iMacs. Would this possibly fix the issue or do I also need the Apple firmware on the drive?
Mid 2011 iMac 27"|i5 2.7GHz|4GB 1333MHz|Radeon 6770M 512MB|