Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help
Hi all,
I'm having a really strange problem with my 2013 MacBook Air. About 5 or 6 hours ago, the fan cranked up to what sounds like maximum speed. Thinking it was just an issue in my current session, I rebooted the machine. As soon as it turned on and the chime played, the fan whirred up once again. I noticed that the system was extremely sluggish. When I looked in Activity Monitor, it said that kernal_process was using something like 200% of the CPU. Activity Monitor also reported that about 60% of my CPU was in use. I thought that was really odd considering I wasn't doing anything intensive and macOS is usually pretty good at regulating the hardware. I tried to reset the NVRAM and SMC, but that didn't seem to help. Maybe I'm not doing something right? I held control option and shift while the machine was off for about 10 or 20 seconds. I also held those keys down along with power for about 10 or 20 seconds. Still, it did no good.
Having concluded it was something wierd in the software, I decided to do a clean install. When I booted from the install drive I have, the fan immediately kicked into gear. It also took about 2 hours to get the system installed which I found very odd. Now, I'm back at the Setup Assistant and the fan is still running at top speed. What's going on? Is my hardware failing? THe system still seems to be a little sluggish. What else can I do besides take the computer to an Apple Store or contact Apple Support?
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