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  1. mrGott

    Overheating: Mac Mini HDD replacement - Samsung 850 Pro

    Hey everyone! I need your advice. 2 days ago I replaced my Mac Mini's (Late 2014) HDD with Samsung 850 Pro 250GB SSD. First day was fine but today I noticed that it was terribly hot on the surface. During almost 3 years of usage it's never been this hot. I just followed a guide on youtube...
  2. rudychidiac

    Magsafe charger is overheating

    Hi guys, As the title says, my Magsafe "brick" is overheating whenever my MacBook Pro is charging (I have a 15" 2015 MacBook Pro) It's too hot that it burns the fingers. One of the two green LED lights stopped working The cable is yellow around the Magsafe brick, and is fraying. So my question...
  3. kevinakerberg

    Resolved 2011 27" iMac Overheating Issues

    Hi everyone, I bought a used 2011 27" iMac outfitted with the 3.1GHz i5-2400 processor, 8GB of RAM, the 1GB HD 6970M GPU, and the standard 1TB hard drive back in December of 2016. The machine was very well taken care of and had no issues. It even came with all of the documentation, keyboard and...
  4. horace528

    MacBook Pro 7,1 (13 inch, Mid 2010) issue during update (sleep light flashing rapidly, loud beeping)

    Hello, I was just getting around to update to 10.12.4, and left the MBP to do its job. While the software update was doing its work on the reboot, at the "8 minutes left" mark, the monitor suddenly turned off, and the sleep light started to strobe rapidly, shortly followed by a high pitched beep...
  5. B

    Is my battery overheating?

    I have a Mid-2014 15" Retina Macbook Pro. Coconut battery is telling me that my battery temp is 109F. Is this too hot? Also, my CPU temp is at 100F but after looking through the forums it looks like there's nothing wrong with that temp.
  6. coolsean20

    iPhone 7 Plus overheating and battery drain

    I am trying to figure out why my iPhone 7 Plus (128GB,AT&T) has been getting extremely hot and why the battery is draining really fast. I'm starting to think I have a defective iPhone. Is anyone else experiencing this? I updated to iOS 10.2.1 last night and it was hot enough to burn my hand.
  7. L

    Iphone 7 & Heating?

    Does anybody find that after about 10 minutes of use their iphone 7 begins to get really hot?
  8. 1_orange

    MacBook Air shuts down after a few minutes

    Hi Mac users, Problem: My MacBook Air shuts down spontaneously after a maximum use of 2 minutes, sometimes even while its booting up. It doesn't go to sleep mode, from one second to another black screen and my laptop is off. Opinion from repair store: In a repair store they told me the...
  9. dafish

    over heating mbp using Sierra

    Using Safari causes mbp to overheat and fan run at high speed. Activity monitor under CPU reads Safari 200 plus current web site 200. Yet using Firefox reads FF 200 current site only 20. Can somebody tell me how I might cool things down.
  10. D

    Macbook Pro 2009 Overheating / Battery issue?

    Hi All, First post here - I see there are various threads related to over heating MBP's. However I would like to know if its possible if a swelled battery could be causing overheating? My touch pad has been pushed out - it still responds, but cannot be clicked. This tells me the battery has...
  11. D

    Your Mac May Sleep to Cool Down

    I was playing Starcraft 2 for a couple of hours in a reasonably warm room and I had that notification waiting for me when I quit, also saying that Starcraft 2 was responsible for the overheating. The system didn't actually shut down though. This is the first time I've seen this happen. Has...
  12. S

    iPhone 7+ Broken Already!

    Received my phone on Friday (iPhone 7+ Rose Gold 128GB), set it up and all. Fast forward to Sunday.... its in my bag when I grab it there's a message about it being too hot. I wait for two hours for it to cool down. Took the case off put it out in open air to cool down. After it cools down...
  13. G

    Graphics card overheating / kernel panic /smc fan control?

    I have a mac pro 1,1 (upgraded to 2,1) tower 24GB of Ram with with two Quad core INTEL XEON X5355 2.66GHZ processors making 8 CORE. The current Graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 4870. I am getting kernel panics when I'm working on large audio mixing / editing sessions in pro tools 10. These...
  14. alexander8317

    What has happened to my Macbook Pro 13'' 2012?

    I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what the problem is with my mac. So, a little while ago there were several cases of my macbook somehow waking itself from sleep mode (while the lid was CLOSED) and severely overheating, while the fans would be blasting. It would literally be hot...
  15. C

    Thunderbolt Display overheating

    Since I installed macOS Sierra the Thunderbolt Display is overheating. It's impossible to touch the screen especially the bottom edge. Of course I don't have to touch it, just trying to explain how hot it is:) Is this normal? Using it with MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014.
  16. lmorrison101

    MacBook Pro various issues

    Hi, My MacBook Pro has been acting up in recent weeks, all beginning with these horizontal lines that appear on the desktop and in application windows (and can be moved around with the window). Then my MacBook Pro started hanging on even the most simple of tasks (opening applications, watching...
  17. M

    iMac overheating please help

    My iMac is overheating and i read an article on "macworld.co.uk" which instruct to change the minimum fan speed of the CPU to 2800 rpm and the Hard Drive to 2200 rpm using a software called "smcFancontrol" i have installed the application and here's a screen shot from my iMac instating that the...
  18. N

    RMP overheating

    Model: Late 2013 integrated graphics Iris Pro I have been using this machine for gaming quite a while. Using Windows of course cause I have no choice (I'm far away from home). Normally I can play Dota 2, Lol and some other MMORPGs without any difficulties. Overall fps about 60 - 120 fps even in...
  19. Mason Dulemba

    Macbook air Overheating help

    Hello everyone, I have a 2011 MacBook air and I am having some major overheating problems. I have already done a smc, pram reset, ran the fans at 6000+rpm, cleaned out the fans and distribution find for the heat sync out (very throughly), made sure the fan was spinning, and lastly removed the...
  20. SuperKerem

    iPhone 6s Plus runs hot?

    Hi. Yesterday I got an iPhone 6s Plus (128GB) and noticed it was running a lot warmer than my iPhone 6. I checked the processor and it was the Samsung one, so that might be the cause. Should I try returning it to hopefully get a TSMC model?