Overheating, battery draining, fan always on

[amytxoxo]

I'm having an issue with my 2012 MacBook Air where the computer gets super hot, the fan constantly runs and the battery drains really fast. It's very annoying and sometimes I only get 1-2 hours of battery life. My storage space is low right now, which I'm thinking could be a reason for this happening. But only about 2/3 of the space is being taken by my stuff; the other 1/3 is being taken by the "other" category and I can't figure out what it is. Any help or advice is appreciated

 

[Boyd01]

Have you tried this? I had a similar problem on my 2008 MBP and this fixed it. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

 

[gnasher729]

I'm having an issue with my 2012 MacBook Air where the computer gets super hot, the fan constantly runs and the battery drains really fast. It's very annoying and sometimes I only get 1-2 hours of battery life. My storage space is low right now, which I'm thinking could be a reason for this happening. But only about 2/3 of the space is being taken by my stuff; the other 1/3 is being taken by the "other" category and I can't figure out what it is. Any help or advice is appreciated

Open "Activity Monitor". It shows you exactly what is using your CPUs. A good candidate are websites using Flash (quit your web browser and see if it makes a difference). If Flash websites are the problem, start Safari, choose "Safari Extensions..." in the Safari mean, and install ClickToFlash.

 

[Mrbobb]

^+1.

The days of care-free, don't want to know how my car works as long as it gets me from point A to point B is over.

 

[eRondeau]

Do you have AdBlock running as a Safari Extension? I found that it would cause the same problems on my iMac. Disable it, reboot, and see if it's any better.

 

[bp1000]

Are you plugging in your AC adapter before waking your MBA from sleep.

When I plug the adapter in before waking (assuming its d/c during its sleep) when my 2011 MBA wakes up it runs hot, fans loud with no report of any memory / CPU leak in activity monitor. I've never been able to solve this. So I always wake up the MBA and then plug in once I've logged in.

Clearly a hardware bug

And yes I've tried SMC reset even PRAM reset

 

[amytxoxo]

Thanks for all the replies! I actually found out that flash in safari was using 100% of my CPU :/