Re: My MacBook Pro has a fan that runs constantly and is very hot!

I have a MacBook Pro 17" from around 2010. I had the same thing with the constantly running fan. I reset the SMC and the PRAM which didn't help. Then I switched from using Google Chrome back to Safari and it seems to have returned to normal. Maybe there is an issue with Google Chrome?

There are many issues with Google Chrome.

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My mid-2012 MacBook Pro has the fan constantly running. As soon as I turn it on. My MBP won't even be hot and the fan is running. How can I fix this?

If you are still under warranty and/or have AppleCare, call them. Let them deal w/it.
OOW try the following: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

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You should contact AppleCare as soon as possible.
MBP is in warranty for 1 year from the date of purchase.
AppleCare: 1-800-275-2273.
Standard troubleshooting step for these kinds of issues is to reset SMC.
Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Your Mac may be indexing files from the flash storage, and this may cause that your CPU usage is high. In this case, I recommend you to carry on using your Mac and fans will stop working at maximum speed soon.
Another thing you can try is to reset the SMC > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 The SMC is the part that manages fans speed, and if it is not working correctly, fans may not be working properly.
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Anniematch wrote:
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My MacBook Pro has the fan on all time since I upgraded to OX 10.9

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The fan is continously running since I made upgrade to OX 10.9

First, try resetting the PRAM > Resetting the PRAM
If that doesn't help, reset the SMC > Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

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Hey guys, my imac is 3 years old now and its fan has been running really fast today. I've shut it down, reset the PRAM, I've reset the SMC as well. It takes it about an hour to speed up. iStat is showing me that the fan speed is running at 3600 rpm and the Hard Drive is running at 124 degrees F. Kinda scary. I've got about 2 months left on my applecare. Any ideas?

Hi iKev7
First have a look at both the HD and HD bay temp's with the iStat Pro widget to see how they compare.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
Second did you follow the correct SMC reset: > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543
most importantly step # 4. +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.+
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Hi,
My MacBook Pro has decided to start freezing up and beachballing whenever I use Skype, Mail, Plex and sometimes when I use Launchbar. Usually my MacBook locks up for anything from several seconds to a few minutes, making it nearly impossible to get even basic things done. Typically, whenever I load up or type something into the above apps is when it locks up. Mail just locks up whenever I do anything when it's in the foreground. If I leave these apps open, the freezing spreads to other apps I regularly use, such as Safari, or even Activity Monitor or the Force Quit Window when I'm trying to diagnose the problem and quit the problem apps.
It's happened to me a couple of times before over the past year, and I thought I'd fixed it by deleting then reinstalling Skype and Growl (which was also slowing things down a lot) using AppZapper. But that hasn't helped much this time.
It was getting so bad that I tried deleting all my plist files in ~/Library/Preferences, in the hope it was a corrupt plist file. But the same apps cause the same slowdown after having done that, too. Actually, Skype and Launchbar seem a little bit better now. Skype hangs now after I press enter to send a message in Skype. Actually typing is (sometimes, but not always) OK. Launchbar only hangs for a few seconds, and not all the time now. Mail is still awful.
Looking in Console, which I'm not very familiar with, brings up some recurring messages that don't look good:
(I'm not sure if this one is relevant, but it keeps appearing every few seconds)
18/09/2010 14:20:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[13262]) posix_spawnp("/Applications/PdaNetMac.app/Contents/MacOS/PdaNetMac", ...): No such file or directory
18/09/2010 14:20:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac[13262]) Exited with exit code: 1
18/09/2010 14:20:44 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.jft.PdaNetMac) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
18/09/2010 14:20:50 org.apache.httpd[13263] (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/apache2/error_log.
18/09/2010 14:20:50 org.apache.httpd[13263] Unable to open logs
The weird thing is I deleted pdanet ages ago. And searching in Launchbar, Spotlight and Houdahspot shows no relevant pdanet files other than my web receipt for buying it. The above error message keeps repeating ad infinitum.
I suspect these errors have more to do with the problem:
18/09/2010 15:17:27 Skype[14047] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/DigitalVoodoo.component/Contents/MacOS/VoodooSDDV10: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/DigitalVoodoo.component/Contents/MacOS/VoodooSDDV10, 262): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/DigitalVoodooLib.framework/Versions/A/DigitalVoodooLib
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/DigitalVoodoo.component/Contents/MacOS/VoodooSDDV10
Reason: image not found
18/09/2010 15:17:31 Skype[14047] AppDelegate::checkAppFirstRun: error on NSPropertyListSerialization of old_plist: stream had too few bytes
18/09/2010 15:17:51 Skype[14047] Failure with ATSFontGetUnicodeCharacterCoverage(). Disabling font fallback optimization for characters not renderable.
These errors keep repeating as long as I have Skype open.
This message kept repeating when I opened Mail just now:
18/09/2010 15:50:30 Mail[14568] Failure with ATSFontGetUnicodeCharacterCoverage(). Disabling font fallback optimization for characters not renderable.
So perhaps this is a font problem? Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help appreciated. I rely a lot on my MacBook for my work, so the faster I can fix this without having to erase and install, the better. But I'll suck it up and reinstall if that's the only solution.
Thanks in advance! (^_^)

Thanks for the reply. (^_^)
I had a look at the links and found I'd attempted much of what was there already.
Step 2 (clearing the font cache) in the font article looked useful, but I've found it's not helped, unfortunately. In fact, these new error messages have popped up in Console since I cleared the font cache and restarted:
19/09/2010 00:48:18 com.apple.ATSServer[1166] FODBError: FODBReconcileWithAuxFile called: kAuxFileHeadersDontMatchErr
19/09/2010 00:48:18 com.apple.ATSServer[1166] FODBCheck: FODBReconcileWithAuxFile - counts for entries and sizes do not match
19/09/2010 00:48:20 com.apple.ATSServer[1166] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
19/09/2010 00:48:20 com.apple.ATSServer[1166] 2010.09.19 00:48:20.32
19/09/2010 00:48:20 com.apple.ATSServer[1166] ATSServer got a fatal error (status: -4) while processing a message (id: 20) from pid=1006.
19/09/2010 00:48:27 org.apache.httpd[1168] (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/apache2/error_log.
19/09/2010 00:48:27 org.apache.httpd[1168] Unable to open logs
19/09/2010 00:48:29 com.apple.ATSServer[1169] FODBError: FODBReconcileWithAuxFile called: kAuxFileHeadersDontMatchErr
19/09/2010 00:48:29 com.apple.ATSServer[1169] FODBCheck: FODBReconcileWithAuxFile - counts for entries and sizes do not match
19/09/2010 00:48:30 Skype[1006] Failure with ATSFontGetUnicodeCharacterCoverage(). Disabling font fallback optimization for characters not renderable.
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatarFromLibForIdentity unable to locate contact object
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatar96 was not found when trying to cache avatar24
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatarFromLibForIdentity unable to locate contact object
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatar96 was not found when trying to cache avatar24
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatarFromLibForIdentity unable to locate contact object
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatar96 was not found when trying to cache avatar24
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] MacContact wrapper could not GetContact with identity:
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatarFromLibForIdentity unable to locate contact object
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatar96 was not found when trying to cache avatar24
19/09/2010 00:48:32 Skype[1006] avatar96 was not found when trying to cache avatar24
Launchbar also produces similar results as the top half of that pile of errors, as well as the previously mentioned Quicktime Voodoo component errors. Perhaps that problem is significant, too, I don't know... Right now, I'm about ready to just give up and erase and reinstall. But that doesn't prevent the problem from happening again, nor knowing what I can restore from backups without resurrecting the same problems... Any takers?

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