10.5.7 Update Correlates With Fans Running Continually

After updating to 10.5.7, my MacBook's fans seem to run continually.
If I Restart, they will stop for about 10 minutes, then return to continual running.
As possible solutions, I tried:
- zapping the PRAM,
- reinstalling the update.
Neither worked.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi Thomas Hollingsworth;
Do you know what temperature your MB is running at?
Is anything blocking the air inlets or outlets?
If that fails you might turn Activity Monitor and see if anything is running that might elevate the temperature.
Allan

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Problem description:
iMac 5K
The computer is running unusually slowly although it is not experiencing high CPU utilization.
The computer's fans run at high speed although the computer is not experiencing heavy usage.
Apple Diagnostics points to SMC problem.
SMC and PRAM resets have not worked.
See Etre Report below.
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Are you saying that after this the FAN runs all the time now?
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I am an HP employee.
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