New i mac - fan stays on

got my new i mac yesterday. all well and good.
went to bed, mac in sleep mode. this am the fan is on and stays on.
i went to restart, same issue.
went to shut down. turned off, left off for 5 minutes. when i restarted, it was quiet for a couple of minutes, but then went on.
any ideas as to the problem. does it need to go into the genius bar?
thanx

I've had issues like that with MS Word. Try shutting down, and unplugging *FROM THE COMPUTER*, not the wall, There is some sort of reset that happens when you physically remove the power cord from the imac.

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