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Just in the last few days I've noticed that 10 minutes or so after startup, my fans start to spool up, and eventually the computer starts slowing down. It gets to the point that just scrolling or typing seems to tax the machine.
Restarting helps briefly, but the problem returns. This happens even if I only have a browser running, either Google Chrome or Safari. And no, I'm not on any burdensome site with a a lot of flash or anything. In fact, it's doing it right now with nothing but this forum open!
Another strange thing is that, once the fans spool up, they never spool back down, even if I close all applications (again, typically just the browser).
I have checked the Activity Monitor under All Processes and nothing is using over 5% CPU. Typically the Activity Monitor itself is using the most CPU, and sometimes kernel_task, but that's usually only a couple percent.
I have also tried resetting the SMC, no help.
The computer is a MBP 2.2 GHz Intel COre Duo with 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running Mac OS X 10.6.7
iStat Pro shows both fans near 6k rpm, CPU temp 90C.
Any ideas?
thanks,
Mike
Restarting helps briefly, but the problem returns. This happens even if I only have a browser running, either Google Chrome or Safari. And no, I'm not on any burdensome site with a a lot of flash or anything. In fact, it's doing it right now with nothing but this forum open!
Another strange thing is that, once the fans spool up, they never spool back down, even if I close all applications (again, typically just the browser).
I have checked the Activity Monitor under All Processes and nothing is using over 5% CPU. Typically the Activity Monitor itself is using the most CPU, and sometimes kernel_task, but that's usually only a couple percent.
I have also tried resetting the SMC, no help.
The computer is a MBP 2.2 GHz Intel COre Duo with 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM running Mac OS X 10.6.7
iStat Pro shows both fans near 6k rpm, CPU temp 90C.
Any ideas?
thanks,
Mike