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Fan on 2011 Macbook Pro Going Wild

  • 17-05-2011 9:09am
    #1
    scotty_irish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a 13" 2011 Macbook Pro base model. The fans seem to randomly come on going full speed making a lot of noise for long periods. I've had a Macbook before this and never experienced this. Has anyone else experience of this or am I alone? Has anyone found a solution - ie firmware upgrade? I'd be apprehensive about using third party software as this could really shorten my machine's life if it's overheating.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Have you made any hardware changes recently? New hard disk, etc?

    Could you have a rogue background process? Use Activity Monitor to check the most active CPU processes.

    Do you watch a lot of Flash video or visit sites with a lot of Flash ads or games?


  • #3
    scotty_irish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭scotty_irish


    Thanks for your reply. no new hardware changes. I've got the laptop nice and clean and not running too many programs at once.

    youtube seems to be a major cause of this. does flash require enough resources to cause that level of heating?


  • #4
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Yes, Flash is a piece of crap CPU hog, unfortunately. This is the reason Apple won't allow it on their iDevices. Install Click to Flash if you are using Safari and try to limit your Flash usage.


  • #5
    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    I have a 2010 or 2009 macbook pro 13" and I have had this same problem.

    The fans kick to very high even though the temperature is still only 70 ish, but it only seems to do it with heavy flash usage or when cpu usage is over 60%.


  • #6
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Sounds pretty normal ! My PowerMac Dual G5 sounds like a Jumbo after a few minutes watching anything Flash based ! Ditto for my MBP, murders the battery too !

    Ken


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  • #7
    insinkerator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭insinkerator


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Yes, Flash is a piece of crap CPU hog, unfortunately. This is the reason Apple won't allow it on their iDevices. Install Click to Flash if you are using Safari and try to limit your Flash usage.

    Or if you are using chrome you can disable the flash plugin through preferences. I thought it would be annoying to have manually "play" all flash, but it's fine.


  • #8
    ryanmatty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭ryanmatty


    If you are mostly finding this problem on youtube you could join the html5 trial they have going on. It will probably solve some of the fan issues by reducing the loads being incurred on the cpu. You can join it at the following url.

    http://www.youtube.com/html5


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