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had to force shutdown WOD..now it it SO HOT and wont complete a start up.It is a MacBook pro
 

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Without any further information, no one will be able to assist. Which MacBook Pro do you have - model and year? Version of OS X it's running?

And your thread was moved here to the correct forum with a new title that makes more sense.
 
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had to force shutdown WOD..now it it SO HOT and wont complete a start up.It is a MacBook pro

well i dont know anything about what macbook you have, but if it is one you can easily open up. go ahead and replace the thermal paste with arctic silver 5.
 

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well i dont know anything about what macbook you have, but if it is one you can easily open up. go ahead and replace the thermal paste with arctic silver 5.

Even if this is a machine that's relatively easy to open that's not something I'd recommend first thing without knowing more information. If the Mac shut itself down that might indicate there is actually a heat issue. If the owner forced shutdown because they thought the machine was overheating when it actually wasn't that's a much different issue.

@ OP I can understand how one might have thought the system was overheating. My MacBook Pro generally runs in the neighborhood of 170 degrees fahrenheit. During some recent video conversions it ran at 200+ for most of a day. Don't know what the temps were that night. It certainly felt hot but never had an issue.
 
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Even if this is a machine that's relatively easy to open that's not something I'd recommend first thing without knowing more information. If the Mac shut itself down that might indicate there is actually a heat issue. If the owner forced shutdown because they thought the machine was overheating when it actually wasn't that's a much different issue.

@ OP I can understand how one might have thought the system was overheating. My MacBook Pro generally runs in the neighborhood of 170 degrees fahrenheit. During some recent video conversions it ran at 200+ for most of a day. Don't know what the temps were that night. It certainly felt hot but never had an issue.

exactly, and thermal paste would fix this issue. a macbook should never run hot enough that you can significantly feel how hot it is. all im saying is if its a few years old it WILL benefit the macbook regardless of whether or not its overheating.
 

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a macbook should never run hot enough that you can significantly feel how hot it is.

Sorry not true.:( In fact the complete opposite. There's hardly an Apple laptop/notebook that I've used since at least 2006 that hasn't gotten hot. And in many cases…so hot…that it can be uncomfortable holding it on a lap.

In fact…my 2011 MacBook Pro on my lap at the moment is quite warm/borderline hot.

Some folks will even suggest that's why the term "notebook" came to be. Since laptops sometimes get so hot that they cannot comfortably be held on the lap.

If the OP's MacBook Pro has parts that use thermal paste…and it is older. Replacing the thermal paste could help some.:)

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Thanks for reiterating the point I was trying to make Nick. Even if this is a machine the OP could take apart and apply thermal paste to there are lots of things that could go wrong in the process -- especially fi the OP is not comfortable around the tight spaces of a "laptop".
 

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The unknown with the OP's post is…"SO HOT" can mean many things to different people. As we've asked for many times in many threads in the past…post temps. Even if the temps got so hot to possibly do damage. We know the computer would auto-shutoff as a protective measure.

My MacBook Pro can get "SO HOT" that it turns my legs red…the fans are at max. rpm…and the exit temps are borderline burning my legs. But this is very normal…since I know that it gets this way when I'm gaming.

But if I'm surfing Mac-Forums, Craig's List, or eBay…then it's quite cool.:)

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