Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Agent086b
Is there any other way to do this on an iMac? If not it will be a Two person job. Max. On 22/06/2013, at 10:32 AM, John Panarese wrote: > Resetting the PRAM? Shift-option-r wiht the power button? > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Em

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
In order to reset the SMC, shut down the computer and plug in the charger. Hold these keys on the left side of the keyboard, shift, control and option then press the power button. Release them all at the same time, then press the power button to power up. Hopefully that will solve it. On Jun 21,

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Ray Foret jr
Is that the one where you press shift+Option+r and the P key? Or, is the P not used? 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 7:32 PM, John

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Ray Foret jr
Ah, that is what I suspect I was looking for. IF that fails, maybe the PRAM. 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 7:37 PM, Mike Arrigo wr

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
You may need to reset the smc, there should be an article on the apple support site describing how to do this On Jun 21, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote: > Okay, This is really weird. Ever since my OS reinstallation back a couple > of weeks ago, I noticed that every time I do anything wi

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread John Panarese
Resetting the PRAM? Shift-option-r wiht the power button? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Ray Foret jr
Already did that. I made sure to do it while the fan was going crazy. No process was taking more than 30% of effort from the GPU. I know that when I removed Fan control some time back, there was something I had to reset with respect to the batttery. Any thoughts? Sent from my mac, the only

Re: fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread John Panarese
You can take a look at Activity Monitor and try to determine what might be running that is consuming resources or causing your processor to work harder. If it is not that, at least you are eliminating that possibility. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4

fan often goes to high speed now

2013-06-21 Thread Ray Foret jr
Okay, This is really weird. Ever since my OS reinstallation back a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that every time I do anything with my Mac book Pro that's even a little taxing on the GPU, (even saving mp3 or .m4a files) my fan always goes to it's highest speed. I suspect that this is not nor