[X4U] firmware update creates the fan from hell

[Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky]

Aloha ...

A month or more ago I innocently installed a firmware update from 
Apple. Since then, if I put my Pro to sleep, the fan goes berserk 
when it wakes up. It takes off like a jet engine and roars so loudly 
you can't even talk over it; this goes on for a full two minutes 
before it starts to calm down. The first time it happened I thought a 
water truck was having problems getting up my hill ... it honestly 
sounds like a diesel engine straining up a grade.

The only way to get it back to "full normal" is to reboot; on its own 
it quiets down to conversational levels, but not to its normal 
near-silent state.

Other people have reported this problem, but Apple is ignoring it. I 
am now to the point of being afraid to install any more of Apple's 
"updates". I can't believe that having the fan run this hard and fast 
is not harming it; under no circumstances would it ever normally run 
that way.

Has anyone out there heard of a viable solution? I can, of course, 
shut down the machine totally every night and re-start it every 
morning, but I would really like to have "sleep" back without all the 
racket! Is it possible to "uninstall" a firmware upgrade?

Mac Pro, OS X 10.4.10
2 x 2.66 GHs Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4GB 667 MHz DDR-FB-DIMM
SMC version 1.7f10

Teddi Stransky, Kahuku, Ka'u, Hawaii
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