Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help I successfully replaced the battery with a little help from my dad. The computer works normally now. The battery was reaching the end of its useful life. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=306557#p306557

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help As a quick fix: Try Max Fan control... https://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-controlIt will take some tinkering to do much of anything(I'm using custom temp values,  on CPU Core 2, fans start raising from 54F, hopefully no more than 65F.)(I

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help As a quick fix: Try Max Fan control... https://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-controlIt will take some tinkering to do much of anything(I'm using custom temp values,  on CPU Core 2, fans start raising from 54F, hopefully no more than 65F.)(I

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help You need the right screwdrivers, otherwise you'll brake the screws.The battery should be quite easy to change in the 2013 models and older. I'll recommend your dad to watch a video on Youtube on how it's done to make sure he don't mess

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help I'm pretty sure the issue was the battery. After doing more research online, I found a few posts that support the idea of a dying battery. With this knowledge, I went and bought a battery off Ebay. Unfortunately, I didn't purchase

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help I'm pretty sure the issue was the battery. After doing more research online, I found a few posts that support the idea of a dying battery. With this knowledge, I went and bought a battery off Ebay. Unfortunately, I didn't purchase

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Chris,Did you ever get your fan issue fixed? If not, my advice. I would take it to an Apple Store, even though the battery may say it is normal, it may not have failed yet. It probably is failing… Though. So I would quickly take

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Moderation! Sorry for not getting to this one earlier but I'm afraid people are indeed correct, this question isn't game related so I am moving this topic to the offtopic room.Hope you get your problem sorted Chris. URL: http

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help The only inaccessible thing is the hardware test. But out from my experiences, the hardware test is crap and giving incorrect results. So I think the last option is to take the computer to an Apple store... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help The only inaccessible thing is the hardware test. But out from my experiences, the hardware test is crap and giving incorrect results. So I think the last option is to take the computer to an Apple store... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Under System Information>power, it says the battery condition is also normal. It also says normal when I hold option and click the trackpad on the battery icon. I tried resetting the NVRAM and letting the machine chime 5 times, but that

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Here is something quick you can try, but I'm not sure if it helps:1. Turn off the computer.2. Hold down the left ctrl, shift and option keys.3. While holding those keys down, press the power button multiple times. Try like 10 times. The SMC

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help The computer isn't hot. It's not even warm. It wasn't hot or warm when I was installing Sierra yesterday. I don't know how the fan could be clogged up. I suppose it's possible, but you'd think the machine would heat up pretty quickly

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Hi.It sounds strange indeed. My first advice was to run a disk repair, but that's done already when you have reinstalled the system, unless your partition is messed up.Sounds like there is something blocking the fans and they needs

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Sorry for posting this in the wrong area. Well, I'm out of ideas. I'm running a fresh copy of Sierra and the fan is still extremely loud and the system still lags. What else can I do aside from taking this to an Apple store? I tried

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

Re: Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help Hi, if I don't say it, someone else will, this belongs in off topic.Don't know what to do as I've never owned a mac, but after a clean install, and the problem still happens, yeah. I might just have said take a vacuum to the vent ports

Increased Fan Activity on my Mac, please Help

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