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  1. K

    Replaced battery but still says Condition: Replace Now

    Hi all, I have a MBP 15" mid-2014 retina. I replaced it with a Newertech battery a few days ago, and a few things happened: 1) Condition still says: Replace Now (even though I calibrated once, and have done PRAM and SMC resets), and coconut battery says's it's poor status 2) fans still run...
  2. bobesch

    TiBook G4 fans never turn off!

    Booted up my TiBook 1.0 today after a longer pause of not beeing used and I noticed, that the fans don't ever stop to work. And even worse: "G4FanControl" and "HardwareMonitor" don't display any temperature-sensors at all. Then I found a note on the website of the developer of...
  3. Queen__6

    SMC Reset With Broken Keyboard

    My laptop has been having some serious issues. It was all working fine until one day, the trackpad no longer worked (I could click but couldn’t move the mouse) and the power button- ONLY the power button- wouldn’t work. I accidentally let it run out of battery, and when I finally turned it back...
  4. E

    Why does my MACBOOK Pro fan run all the time?

    I was having a problem with my fan running all the time. I went to the Finder, Go, Utilities and started the activity monitor. It turned out the Vshieldscanmanager was eating up 100% of the CPU. I called Mcaffee which is now owned by Intel and got tech support. They told me that if I skip...