[X4U] G5 Fan Run Amok

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Oct 20 18:37:20 PDT 2005


At 6:24 PM -0400 10/20/05, Stephen Lanza wrote:
>I have a dual G5 2.0 that has been experiencing an unusual fan problem. On
>random occasions where I haven't used the machine for a while (like
>overnight), I come back to the machine to find the fan running continuously
>at a high speed.

I've seen this happen a few times in the two years I've owned my 
system.  I think it has been a grand total of 3-5 times.

When this happens the system has apparently crashed and decided that 
it's overheating and needs the fans running full bore.

It is *VERY* disturbing!

		Zane


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