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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Recently I have woken up during the night because my Macbook has randomly 'awoken' causing my two external hard drives to spin up and its internal system fan to start blowing loudly. This is weird for a start. What's weirder is that it doesn't fully wake up when it does this, or at least my external display doesn't come on, it just sits there in this half awake/half asleep state with the fan blowing a gale. If it's doing something weird like waking on LAN or Bluetooth or one of my iDevices trying to sync etc, is there a way to disable this or at the very least kill the noisy fan?
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MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Yesterday I installed snow leopard (finally) and planning on downloading Lion. Its 22 hours later and now my fans are blowing loud. I had this problem on my "old" IMAC that ended up with a logic board failure after living a short 2 1/2 years. This IMAC is ironically the same age but we won't go there. I read one comment that this might be a transient issue that will last a week or so after the install. Hard Drive fan running at 5900 rpms, temps are at 37-40. Â
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
For no apparent reason, my iMac (27" mid 2010) has a very loud fan all of a sudden. PCU usage is not high.I already followed the instructions to reset my SMC... Nothing changed.I used compressed air to clean eveythingn I could... No change.
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My mac just blew out a lot of dust and now the fan is very loud.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I just bought a new iMac and it is really quiet. But I don't intend to retire my old G4 desktop. The olny thing that bothers me is the blower. It is always on even if I am not working on the machine. When I put it to sleep the blower goes off.
I have another G4 desktop (slightly older) which is no where near as noisy.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My time machine external drive is full, how do I delete old back ups?
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iMac, iOS 5.1
I just bought an iMac 27 was working in Mac mode with parallel making me able to go to bootcamp i.e PC mode.. Somehow managed to open my computer in PC mode and I do not know how to go back to Mac?? I was having problems printing, the printer would not print in bootcamp while it did in Mac.
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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I bought a IMac and had preloaded ilife apps ready to be downloaded in purchased tab and accidentally deleted iphoto and imovie. How do I get them back?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My old iMac recently blacked out and does not work and lost all pictures. My iPad has all the pictures including the ones from my personal camera. The iPad is backed up to iCloud but not sure if it included the camera pictures. Were those pictures from my camera ever backed up and is it possible to get it back installed into a new computer?
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