New Mac Quad makes loud fan noise when sleeping

[Khashyar]

Hi Everyone,

I recently bought a refurbished Mac Quad, and everything was running fine until today.

I installed 4 GB of RAM, as well as an AJA Kona LHe audio/video capture card, and now, when my Mac sleeps, the fan runs on high and there is a clearly audible fan noise that seems too loud, and a noise level that I never hear when I am working on my Mac.

I also recently installed all of the Mac OS updates.

Does anyone know what this might be and how I might fix the issue?

Thanks,

Khashyar

 

[4God]

Hi Everyone,

I recently bought a refurbished Mac Quad, and everything was running fine until today.

I installed 4 GB of RAM, as well as an AJA Kona LHe audio/video capture card, and now, when my Mac sleeps, the fan runs on high and there is a clearly audible fan noise that seems too loud, and a noise level that I never hear when I am working on my Mac.

I also recently installed all of the Mac OS updates.

Does anyone know what this might be and how I might fix the issue?

Thanks,

Khashyar

Have you tried pulling out the AJA card? Sometimes third party issues arise causing weird things to happen.

 

[EricNau]

I would also pull out the RAM (separately from the AJA card to see which one is the problem).

 

[Khashyar]

Thanks Eric and 4God...

I can try that to isolate the issue.

You would think that companies selling high quality (and expensive) hardware would test for conflicts more throughly.... instead of customers having to spend their time solving hardware issues.

Thanks again,

Khashyar