Yes fan speed question again..but with a slight

I use my new 27" strictly as a monitor (target display mode) for my mac pro.
The fans all idle while sleeping..upon screen wake after some 15-20 mins the cpu fan slowly creeps up and does so reaching say 1750+ after 50-60 mins...it may get to 2000 or more. All this is with 0% cpu usage and note.. does so by creeping up.The other 2 fans escalate marginally.
I have done the SMC firmware and SMC reset. I suspect the LCD temp sensor controls the cpu fan ( and possibly the others) as the fan speed does hold or somewhat reduce if I put monitor into a dim state.If I put imac into sleep then wake right away it reverts to a much lesser speed..top left corner of case is virtually untouchable....normal ?
EDIT:It appears going into tdm may load the imac cpu but I can't determine because it can't be viewed when in tdm...the fan seems to diminish whem the imac is run in imac screen mode...more testing to be done
Message was edited by: msbeezy

I was not trying to insult you, but more to break the ice since it felt like you were "talking down" towards me,
camickr wrote:
ok, its the second time you recommend to use the key binding, So why are we wasting our time having to recommend it again? You where given the link to the tutorial the other time as well.
any good explanation as for why? a) you just found a reason
b) thats why you read the tutorial
I mean my application is a small 3d game a) what does small or large have to do with anything? The best design is the approach you should use.
b) how do we know that from the question?
Our approach is to suggest the best approach that we know. This approach may or may not be appropriate, that is why you read the tutorial and make up your own mind. Of course all Swing components use KeyBindings. Many of them like the text components or JTable will bind 20 different keys. it's not that i didn't take your advice from the first time you gave it, i read the tutorial of both keyListener and keyBinding, and browsed through the documentation of them both, but still a few things were not clear to me as to the efficiency of a wider usage of keys that's all.
and btw I have the utmost respect to you guys and what you do, and i hope we can still get along, so thank you for your help, i'll menage from here.

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I recently installed and formatted a new hard drive in my PowerMac dual 2.3 ghz computer and I have a few questions.
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Sorry, another CPU fan speed question.

Hi,
Just got a new 2011 iMac 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 21 inch. First mac and loving it so far! I can hear the fans just slightly at idle in a quiet room and checked on this forum to see what is the normal idle fan speed.
Most of the results come back with the CPU fan running at around 938 rpm. mine is constant at 1199 rpm. A few others have this speed too, but he majority are around the 938 rpm level (some much higher). My temps also seem lower than most at idle too (due to the higher fan speed i guess).
OP Drive 998
HD Drive 1099
CPU 1199
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Why the difference between machine (shouldn't they be set the same in all machines with the same spec with software)?
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Greetings,
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Macbook Air 2013 fan speed doesn't increase with temperature

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What model Air do you have, 2013 Air runs much cooler.
Reset SMC
SMC reset
Shut down the computer.
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Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
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I turned it on.
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I took it back, geniuses rest SMC and tested it under load and it was fine.
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Replaced logic board and heats sensors again, but more carefully this time just in case, tested again.
I took it home. FANS FANS FANS.
Last time I was in the store I was told my machine was fine and had been thoroughly tested.
In mac store, no fans.
I erased hard drive and clean installed Lion
FANS
I replaced hard drive with OCZ SSD, clean LION.
Fans
Software update
SMC
PRAM
permissions
Onyx complete clean/maintenace
FANS/CPU
switched back to Snow Leopard SSD
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FANS/CPU
replaced RAM, memtest-ed. fine, FANS
gonna try again but up to nearly 2 months of all my spare time trying to shut this thing up so I can sell it.

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Hello Members,
I give up. Trying to get a backup to run.
System: Windows 2012 Standard running on a Dell T320, 8GB ram.
Programs: Symantec EPP, EPP client, and Symantec System Recovery 2012.
Attempting to run window server backup - once a day, and SSR once a week.
No matter what drives/partitions are selected (baremetal,host,system state,recovery,c:,e:,f:) or NOT selected,
the WID writer service and/or database ALWAYS ALWAYS FAILS, the widwriter starts in stable state, and as soon as a backup (either Windows Server or SSR) attempts VSS snapshot - we get either failures (SSR) or warnings (Windows Server).
Can anyone fix this? Below listed are the errors:
Writer Failures
Writer Id: {8D5194E1-E455-434A-B2E5-51296CCE67DF}
Instance Id: {2812CE06-FFDC-4956-B935-EFBEB78A6213}
Writer Name: WIDWriter
Writer State: 8
Failure Result: 800423F0
Application Result: 1
Application Message: (null)
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\master.mdf Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\mastlog.ldf Recursive: 0
   Component: model
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\model.mdf Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\modellog.ldf Recursive: 0
   Component: msdb
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\MSDBData.mdf Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\MSDBLog.ldf Recursive: 0
   Component: SUSDB
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\SUSDB.mdf Recursive: 0
       File Spec: C:\Windows\WID\Data\SUSDB_log.ldf Recursive: 0
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{5EC3C3E2-715E-4C25-9C56-B15E17A734B5}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{EAAAAF7C-37D0-4667-8737-083C87829BE9}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{5033B28F-38E8-466B-8853-3F50C641C8CC}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{4C04D12A-F694-4905-96FD-94D9A6EFEFD1}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{9F6E7A5A-C875-4265-89EF-AEB347922858}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{EA9CC172-FA78-4561-816A-2E716E8EC0AC}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{401C4DF5-AEAC-4EB0-A2D7-13E4D3113CF8}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
   Component Message: (null)
   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{B891294F-C379-4089-AE5E-C98252EA37FD}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
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   Component: RollbackSnapshotTempDB{7D5AE0B6-A0D4-4C2F-9563-038E94C885F8}
   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
   Component Result: 800423F0
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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   Logical Path: BRAHMA-WIN2012\MICROSOFT##WID
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Application backup
I am open to ideas,
Thanks,
Eric
Network and Server Installs

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However...
I've not noticed any slowness whatsoever. I also have 16GB of RAM and, although I sometimes run up against the RAM brick wall (likely because I have 6GB of RAM being used for Windows 7 running under Parallels) I don't notice anything strange about RAM usage.
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CPU heats up on file copy/backup and fan speed does not increase

Hi Friends,
I have been having issues with fan in my Dell Studio 1555. It has an ATI Radeon card and I had installed the proprietary catalyst driver as the open source driver is too noisy.
Recently, I noticed that on accessing my hard disk and copy files or running backup (luckybackup), the temperature shoots up from around 60 deg C (just using chrome) to 100 deg C when it would shut down itself. However, it seems like the fan speed does not increase with the increase in temperature to help it cool down.
I tried to get the fan speed details with "lm-sensors" but it would not show the fan speed. Here is the output of sensors:
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acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +60.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp2: +59.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
temp3: +66.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
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Core 1: +58.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Following the Arch wiki, I added acpi_enforce_resources=lax to kernel parameters but it did not help as well.
Here is the main problem:
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2. Sensors does not show the fan speed. Read about i8kutils, but couldn't figure out how to get it working with systemd. Any indicators here?
Last edited by ravisghosh (2013-07-01 05:22:01)

luuuciano wrote:Ravi, did you solved it?
Im having similar issue on a vostro 1710, fan never works... :-/
The fan was bad. I had to replace the fan. However, I have not been able to figure out how to see fan speed in sensors.
Last edited by ravisghosh (2013-09-08 15:57:37)

Dell Vostro 1400 fan speed

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Now the sensor applet tells me that my fan speed for Fan1 is around 27000 RPM and for Fan2 it's around 10000 RPM, while both cores of the CPU are around 50 C.
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> Try to load the driver tg3.ko and see if it works with this driver and
> you boot from the cd (pxe will not work because you can't get out of
> linuxrc, actually you might be able to do it, but I found the menu to
> be really confusing. Go It looks like is a broadcom 59xx series.>
Code:
> > # modprobe tg3
> >
> If the driver tg3 works then you need to add the newid option in the
> append section of the isolinux.cfg or linuxrc.config. Check the
> forums for more info about newid option.
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Fan speed & temperature

hello guys...
After 8 months before buying my geforce4ti4800se videogard, I began to notice some changes to fan speed & temperature while checking 3d turbo experience...
first of all, when I bough the card (winter season) I cant remember the fan speed but the card's internal temperature was about 39ºc while not playing and 45 ºc playing games... external temperature was around 15 - 20 ºc...
Now , card's temperature stays around 56ºC (without playing games) and jumps to 58 - 59ºc after playing games... Local temperature (32ºC) ...
I cant remember the fan speed at winter but now Im getting a blink message on the driver and the fan speed stays at 3300 rpm....
The increase of the temperature is related to a fan slowdown..? If YES, how can I fix the fan to get more speed? (Its not a source problem)....
Is 58ºC ok for the card or should I get worried about it ?
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Without full system specs in your sig line, it's very hard to help. Minimal information gets minimal help. Some people here won't even bother to answer w/o the info, and I can't say that I blame them, especially when the instructions are at the top of the forum.
To me, w/o any other info, it sounds like you have a case ventilation problem.

Fan speeds go up when charging?

Hello, this is my first time posting here, and my first mac.
I was using my macbook pro 2.2 today while unplugged, then once i plugged it in when it was low, i noticed the fans sped up to about 3500 - 4000 rpm. I looked in the iStat widget and i guess the highest temp was the memory control, it was about 60c.
Is this normal to happen? If so, can someone explain why?

Yes, fan speed can increase when charging. This is simply due to the fact that the act of charging a battery produces heat which can just be enough to ramp up your fans, especially during summer when ambient teemperatures are higher.

Ordinary fan speed with max load?

Hi all,
I did a search and couldn't find anything so I figured I'd start a new topic so I hope this hasn't been answered before.
First of all, I decided I wanted to start gaming on Win7 in boot camp (3.0) for the first time yesterday, so I installed and started up CounterStrike: Source, initially I was getting 70+fps on all levels, but after a while my framerate would suddenly drop to ~17fps, and the laptop felt very warm (and the fan didn't seem to be spinning much faster than the standard 2000rpm).. A few topics I found said that Windows doesn't seem to be able to control the fan speed and recommended installed smcFanControl (which I'm now using). First off, I was wondering if someone could confirm if this is true? (And is this the same with Vista/XP too?)
Second, I decided that if I were to set a fan speed in smcFanControl, that I would want to be sure that it is capable of removing the heat from the computer, so I decided to run a few tests to see what the standard spinning speed was when the computer was running at 100% (Both cores of the CPU), so I ran 'yes > /dev/null' twice in the command line (once for each core), and I realised that the fan on my MBP (I only have one since I have the 13") didn't really increase from the default 2000rpm until the temperature had reached the late 90˚'s C.
(Both temp and speed measured with iStat/smcFanControl)
I was wondering if this is standard for everyone else? (It seems a little late to just start increasing the fan speed; I'd assume that they'd increase with speed linearly as the temperature rose to keep the laptop at a constant temperature.). So, when does everybody else's fan suddenly kick in? (Mine kept a constant 97˚C afterwards and the fans were running at around 5400rpm - they didn't seem to reach the max 6200rpm that the fan is capable of in a 10min test.) - Although they did reach highs of as much as 101˚C.
When the laptop had cooled down (idling), I decided to run the test again, this time setting the minimum fan speed at 6200rpm and the laptop didn't seem to get much hotter than 85˚C. Surely it would be better if Apple had the fans running at max to keep the CPU temperature lower than 100˚C.. I mean, if my CPU got to 101˚C with the fans still at 5400rpm, when would they reach the max 6200rpm, considering that the CPU is only rated for a maximum temperature of 105˚C?
I'm not complaining, I love my MBP to bits and I think Apple have done a pretty good job designing them and OS X, but I do just wonder if there's either something wrong with mine (or is this the standard for everyone?), or if Apple should perhaps have the fans come on a little sooner to take away the excess heat.
Thanks everyone.

hi,
i made a post a few days ago and it looks like heat is a normal problem (as in it normally sails into the 'danger zone). have tried some of the other solutions but not having much luck ..
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2241474&tstart=45
Steve (worried)

Yes fan speed question again..but with a slight

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