You might try reinstalling again, perhaps something happened during the install. Here's another thought, does this happen if you boot in to the recovery and do something like surf the internet from that? On Jun 22, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Ray Foret jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote:
> No. My Apple Care expired this past November. This didn't start to happen > until the latest OS reinstall. Also, the machine is sitting on a hard > surface; a desk with nothing soft on top or beneeth. > > > Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > >> You don't happen to have Apple Care do you? I've had one laptop with a >> 'defective heat pipe' which Apple replaced for free under warranty a couple >> years ago now. Also, just to check the obvious, but you don't have the >> machine nestled down in anything soft like a couch cushion or pillow that >> might be blocking the heat vents right? >> >> CB >> >> On 6/21/13 10:14 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: >>> Actually, it turned out not to do the trick after all. I think something >>> else is going wrong here because something's really pulling hard on the >>> GPU: but, doesn't show up in the Activity monitor. I think that what >>> ever's going on is producing a lot of heat and making the chip set much >>> hotter than it really should be. I'll look again but can't find anything. >>> >>> >>> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>> built-in! >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >>> >>> On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Ray Foret jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Many thanks to John and Mike for reminding me about the SMC. A reset of >>>> the SMC did the trick and now all is well again. Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>>> built-in! >>>> Sincerely, >>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >>>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.