Now that I think about it, I think it was after we put an ssd in to it that the fan kicked in to life.
Interesting though the ssd were purchased through a mac support agent so I would have thought been ok. Anyway not my issue now as don’t work for that company / organisation. Although I know I’ve still got the admin usernames and passwords for the image they are currently running on it / them 15 iMacs. From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2019 12:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: More on my fan high speed problem. Hi, When this happened on iMacs, it was usually due to a non-Apple HD being installed after an HD failure. The non-Apple HD didn't interface properly with the sensors, and thus it turned the fans on just for fun. I don't recommend doing that in this situation as it is not a mis-reading of sensors kind of thing. If you turn down the fans and the machine is getting hot, you could cause damage to the internal components. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Jamf Certified Associate Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 18, 2019, at 15:55, Simon A Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com<mailto:si...@blinky-net.com>> wrote: I’ve struck a similar thing on an iMac I used at work wit an earlier os. A mac tech gave me a fan controller to use and it worked great to bring the fan speed and control back to normal. Sorry I don’t know the name of it ut I’ll try and find out. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2019 8:32 AM To: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Re: More on my fan high speed problem. Hi! It has 8GB ram so i would be good to go i guess. /A 18 nov. 2019 kl. 20:19 skrev 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>>: Hi, How much RAM do you have in that MBA? A 2015 model should be fine if it has 8 GB, but a 4 GB one might misbehave a little. Later... \ Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Jamf Certified Associate Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 17, 2019, at 15:18, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se<mailto:and...@pipkrokodil.se>> wrote: Hi! I really not sure what is going on with my macbook air 2015. Catalina made it speed up. Activity manager told me first that VOiceover was the culprit. But i have reset pram and smc and now Voiceover is not the culprit. The activity manager gives no idea on what is going on. Logging out and waiting for several hours does not help. Maybe its time to buy a new one. 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