[X4U] noisy fans

Jan Melichar janmel at mac.com
Sat Dec 17 00:02:41 PST 2005


On 15 Dec 2005, at 01:32, PoolMouse wrote:

> Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net> wrote:
>
>>  > From: Jan Melichar <janmel at mac.com>
>>>
>>>  I was 'forced' to upgrade to 10.4.3 and since then the fans on  
>>> the G5  GHz dual have been coming on much more often. I seem to  
>>> remember this  being discussed a while back and a solution  
>>> suggested. Could someone  remind me what the 'solution' was.
>>
>> Unplug the machine for a couple minutes.
>>
>> Set processor to Automatic in Energy Saver Preferences
>
> actually you should set to "highest" to prevent the runaway fan issue.
>

Thanks for the various tips. Unpluging and setting ESP to 'highest'  
had done the trick. - fans now silenced.

By way what does the unplugging do?

Jan


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