Mac Mini fan on high, UI frozen. Had to shut it off. Any way to tell what the problem was when I boot it back up?

I leave my Mac Mini on constantly as a HTPC. I came home after being at work all day to find the fan on high and the lock screen incredibly sluggish. I have no idea how long it was like that, it's never done anything like it before. I couldn't login because it was too slow, I had to force it to shut off. Is there any way to see what it could've been when I boot it up, such as log files or something like that? I was hoping to get in to see top or the activity monitor but as I said earlier, I wasn't able to log in.

I had TeamViewer 9 installed. The Preferences window that contained the Uninstall button would not open so I just moved the .app to the trash. Last night I:
Installed TeamViewer 10 as it was the latest version, I figured I had that one previously
Uninstalled it using the preferences pane
Realized from the /private/var/db/receipts (I think) entries that I had TV9 installed previously, not 10
Installed TeamViewer 9
Tried to uninstall TV9, found the broken preferences pane and remembered why I just deleted it in the first place
Upgraded it to TV10
Uninstalled it using the preferences pane
I'll check on it tonight, but I think it's okay. I want to do a grep -r -i "teamviewer" / when I get back to see if anything is left behind.

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Do you have the system disks that came with the computer? If so, and depending on model, you may be able to start from the CD/DVD and then make the jump to booting normally.
All computers has a little battery on the logic board that holds date, time, and some important startup parameters when the compuer is taken off wall power for a short time. If your battery was very old and died, then the settings the computer needs to start may have been lost when you unplugged it. For some Mac modles, booting from a CD or DVD gets around this temporarily, but ultimately the battery needs to be replaced. The internal batteries are cheap but can be hard to access on some iMacs like the G4 "desklamp" model

Mac shut down due to problem; I rebooted fine. how do I determine what the problem was?

mac shut down due to problem; I rebooted fine. how do I determine what the problem was?

When shut down and rebooted, the Mac OS X does background maintenance on the system. That can solve minor issues.
Beyond this, it is a good idea to run Disk Repair yourself just to make sure.
Reboot with the option key held down. On the screen that comes up select the Recovery disk icon and Continue.
On the next screen Clcik Disk Utility and Continue.
In DU, in the list on the left select the drive to be repaired - click the item that is indented to the right, not an an item whose name starts on the far left.
Click First Aid, then Repair Disk.
After that is done, quit DU and restart as usual.

HELP- mac mini fan just sped up to 5500 RPM

mac mini fan just sped up to 5500 RPM
temps are normal though, no overload to system.

The first thing I would try is to perform an SMC reset on the system:
-From the Apple menu, choose Shut Down (or if the computer is not responding, hold the power button until it turns off).
-Unplug all cables from the computer, including the power cord and any display cables.
-Wait at least 15 seconds.
-Plug the power cord back in, +making sure the power button is not being pressed at the time.+
-Then reconnect your keyboard and mouse to the computer.
-Press the power button on the back to start up your computer.
If the fan continues to run at full speed after that, does it do so right from power on, or on;y after the system has been running a few minutes?

Mac mini fan starts every 20 secs

After reviewing posts with similar issues, I tried:
- Rresetting PRAM
- Resetting the SMC
- Since I wanted to do a clean install for a while, I did a Snow Leopard clean install.
After all of this, the mac mini fan starts and inmediatley goes quiet. It repeats this over an over every 20 seconds.
What else can I try? My Mac mini is from 2007 (2 GHz, Intel Core Duo 2)

Since you've done a clean install (and updated to current/latest release?), and the AHT didn't find any obvious issues, and an SMC reset didn't help, let's look at more causal sources.
Have you looked at the vents on the bottom to ensure they are free of lint/dust/animal hair/etc? Plugged intake vents can cause high temperatures and the fan behavior you're hearing.
Have you looked at the Activity Monitor (on your hard drive in applications/utilities) to see is any program is using much of the processor, which would drive heat in the system?
Do you have iStat Pro so you can see what the temps are on various components?

Mac Mini fan increase speed and noise

Hi all.
Quick question. This has been bugging me for a while so decided to get some expert help from you guys.
Lately my new mac mini fan has been operating at full speed sometimes when the computer wakes from sleep and also while restarting or when holding down command and R for the recovery partition. The computer I must say is not suffering any performance issuses or is not under any hard loads.
This is getting very annoying! I have reset the SMC as per apples instructions and it has got better. I am wondering if my external firewire drive is causing problems.
I will explain my hardware set up.
One UPS which is plugged in and the mini runs off that. USB cable from the UPS is attached to the back of the mini. I have one thunderbolt display, one printer on USB, one EYETV USB dongle, Bose speakers plugged into the USB as well.
The firewire drive goes to sleep after 30 mins have elapsed. I guess if I am not using it, eject it and leave the cable from the back of the drive unplugged until I need it again? trying to unplug it from the mini is a chore as the desk space is small.
Any thoughts would be great.
Thanks.

here is a list of wake reasons in the console.
10/03/2014 12:53:57.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 13:54:45.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 14:55:37.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 15:56:25.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 16:57:17.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 17:58:05.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 18:05:25.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: EHC1
10/03/2014 22:36:12.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
10/03/2014 23:41:29.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 00:12:17.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 00:43:10.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 01:43:58.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 02:44:46.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 03:45:38.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 04:46:26.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 05:47:14.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 06:48:06.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 07:48:54.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 08:49:46.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
11/03/2014 09:13:42.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: EHC1
These are mainly when the mac wakes up for Netowrk access as I have back to mac turned on.
I have also included this as well from the terminal output window using:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message Req Wake
Mar 11 00:12:17 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 00:12:17 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 00:12:18 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1011 milliseconds
Mar 11 00:43:10 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 00:43:10 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 00:43:10 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 00:43:11 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1016 milliseconds
Mar 11 01:43:58 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 01:43:58 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 01:43:58 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 01:43:59 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1020 milliseconds
Mar 11 02:44:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 02:44:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 02:44:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 02:44:47 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1012 milliseconds
Mar 11 03:45:38 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 03:45:38 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 03:45:38 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 03:45:39 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1012 milliseconds
Mar 11 04:46:26 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 04:46:26 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 04:46:26 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 04:46:27 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1018 milliseconds
Mar 11 05:47:14 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 05:47:14 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 05:47:14 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 05:47:15 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1024 milliseconds
Mar 11 06:48:06 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 06:48:06 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 06:48:06 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 06:48:07 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1026 milliseconds
Mar 11 07:48:54 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 07:48:54 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 07:48:54 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 07:48:55 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1016 milliseconds
Mar 11 08:49:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: RTC (Alarm)
Mar 11 08:49:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 08:49:46 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 08:49:47 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1020 milliseconds
Mar 11 09:13:42 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EHC1
Mar 11 09:13:42 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Mar 11 09:13:42 unknown-28-cf-e9-04-d0-45 kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltNHI::prePCIWake - power up complete - took 0 us
Mar 11 09:13:43 Alexs-Mac-Mini kernel[0] <Debug>: AppleThunderboltHAL::earlyWake - complete - took 1010 milliseconds

On my Mac Mini, I keep getting this error message: "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server". I don't have any problems with iCloud on my laptop / PC. It works fine... Does anyone know what the problem could be?

On my Mac Mini, I keep getting this error message: "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server". I don't have any problems with iCloud on my laptop / PC. It works fine... Does anyone know what the problem could be?

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