Fans - What's Up???

My Mac has been working perfectly up untill today. I rarely turn it off, just let it go to sleep overnight. When I woke it up today, the fans started going like crazy! They've been running for about 20 minutes now, and won't shut down. I tried a restart, same thing. I shut down and booted back up, same thing.
Does anyone have any experience with something like this? What would be my next step?
Thanks,
JimT

Hmm... seems fairly normal - except that it runs a lot cooler than this DP2...
Based on read-outs from HM running on this Mar 04 DP2 and practical tests on this Mar 04 DP2 - 'OS X' is telling the Drive Bay fan to spin at 1000rpm which is the 'default'; high room temps will cause it to increase, but 1000 is the lowest, and usual speed.
If you are positive it is the Drive Bay fan that is making all the noise - and (whilst I have no recollection of any such suggestion) I suppose you could check this by stopping the fan momentarily with a suitably soft-but-firm object - then the sub-system "below" OS X (in firmware, I guess) is instructing it to spin fast.
The most-common cause of this is the clear plastic deflector panel not being correctly located, or the sensor reflector tape on the right-hand locating peg being damaged - but this sensor is linked also to the red LED on the logic board edge, which you state is working as it should when the air deflector is moved.
On this DP2, HM still reports 1000rpm for the Drive Bay fan when the deflector sensor is triggered, because HM reports the OS X instructions, not the 'lower level' firmware ones.
So, if it's definitely the Drive Bay fan(just left of, and close to the hard drives, behind a silver wire grille) making all the noise, and it's not being triggered by the deflector panel sensor, and you've reset the PMU/SMU, I don't know what else to suggest.
There is some mention of thermal calibration(at page 95)
- and possibly other relevant info - in the document linked-to here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3510337#3510337
Sorry, it's a bit late here now and I'll look at this again tomorrow in case there's anything obvious been missed. Good Luck.

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Reset the SMC.
Read all the steps.
Before Resetting the SMC
Try each of the following steps in this order before you reset the SMC. Test the issue after completing each troubleshooting step to determine if the issue still occurs.
Press Command + Option + Escape to force quit any application that is not responding.
Put your Mac to sleep by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Sleep. Wake the computer after it has gone to sleep.
Restart your Mac by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Restart.
Shut down your Mac by choosing the Apple () menu from the upper-left menu bar and then choosing Shut Down.
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Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Reconnect the battery and MagSafe power adapter.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Still having problems? Replace steps 6 and 7 with the following:
Reconnect MagSafe power adapter.
Press the power button to turn on the computer,
Then reconnect the battery.
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Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if it's not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
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A few weeks ago I posted the referenced topic, and got lot's of good help and advice which I thank everyone for (and a special thanks to maclover.) If you're interested in the origingal discussion, you can find it here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=719066&tstart=0
This post is just to let everyone know what happened, and maybe to console others that have similar fan problems. It seems to be kind of a hot topic!
Sometimes, you've just got to bite the bullet. In my case it turned out to be a bad logic board. For a mere $800 I'm back in business with quiet fans. It was a really tough decision to sink that much money into the repair, but a friend convinced me to when he said, "Hey, I just put $450 in brakes on a car I paid $500 for last year!"
Another kicker, turns out my hard drive has problems too. I declined the repair shops offer to replace it. I think I can handle that one. Look for some upcoming questions from me though!
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Hi Jim - Thanks for the update - sorry to hear it was the diamond-encrusted platinum Logic Board. Glad it's fixed - trust it will last for ever now...

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