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Subject: [Leica] OT: IMac trouble - CPU fan speed = 0rpm - experts welcome
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:16:30 -0700
References: <3BBE397D-6F1E-4A2E-9784-701824E6AB45@sfr.fr>

Oooo boy, hopefully, it's just a bad fan, but best to take it to a repair
shop. Over here in the States, we have "Genius" in the Apple Store.

I forgot exactly, but CPU should probably be no hotter than 85 degree F
(-32 x 5 / 9 to get Celsius) and the motherboard probably no higher than
120.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:07 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

> It's all in the heading I think.
>
> My 2009 24" aluminium Imac DuoCore 3.06 Intel, 2x2GB SDRAM, running 10.5.8
>  tends to heat a lot - the upper left corner gets real hot when I process
> large batches of photos.
>
> I've downloaded smcFan Control and it tells me that the CPU fan doesn't
> spin - 000rpm.
>
> (The other 2 fans (OD-HDD) can be adjusted alright and, more specifically
> heard; so far so good).
>
> OTT : When younger the mac "sighed" heavily when I resumed operation after
> it went to economy mode. It no longer does.
>
> I don't know how to open a Mac to check that CPU fan and before I take it
> to the repair shop I'd like to know
>
>
> - what the "normal" temps for the CPU are
>
> - which temp NOT to exceed
>
> AND
>
> if any of you has encountered this problem what the outcome was.
>
>
> Thank you in anticipation for informed replies.
>
> Bien cordialement de Metz
> Philippe, who hopes this won't degenerate into a "my PC never  ..."
> hijacking ;-)
>
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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