[X4U] firmware update creates the fan from hell

[Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky]

I run a temperature monitor in the background all the time ... the 
machine is NOT hot, it's as cool as would be expected from a sleeping 
processor. Temps are lower than when I am actually using the machine, 
when the can runs quite silently.  The rollback you suggest seems to 
be the only way ... I just need to locate my original install disks 
and a Saturday I can devote to it. :(  Thanks for your response.

Teddi

>I had to do a firmware roll back once, and it was not pretty.  I forget the
>exact steps, but it was pretty close to installing an older version of the
>OS and then applying all the updates to get me to the one just before the
>one that broke.  I was a half day affair.
>
>I had a problem once with google desktop causing my fan to go berserk.  You
>should probably run the system monitor to see what may be running to get the
>machine so hot (if it is actually hot).  I find that iStat Nano is also a
>great little widget for monitoring temps, fan speeds, etc.  Maybe it will
>give you some ideas as to where the problem is.
>       -Bob
>
>
>On 9/20/07 3:43 AM, "Teddi Pomaika'i Stransky" <teddi at alohabroadband.com>
>wrote:
>
>>  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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>
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