Timeline for How to know if the System Management Controller (SMC) has been reset?
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| Jun 2, 2020 at 15:44 | comment | added | Applefanboy | In wrapping then, if you have a (cost) friendly technician available locally who is capable of stripping your MBPro - ideally someone Mac friendly who knows the model - then I would suggest that is the most effective option. My tech advised me that if I had brought him the 17" MBPro earlier he could have saved it with a deep strip / clean but hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially since apps like Google Chrome were hogging processor on the towers as well i.e. I didn't understand fully the MBPro ventilation issue at the time - felt it was more age, ram, processor and app related. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 15:36 | comment | added | Applefanboy | In terms of the MacPro towers both G5 and Intel, I have had better success - 6 currently still in operation including my main MacPro 12 core 3 GHz (5,1) which is now 12 years old and counting, however, I use iStat menus now for fan control as in includes deeper monitoring of temperatures across the Mac. I also regularly open the case and remove the CPU tray to clean with compressed air which is worthwhile - pity I couldn't have done that with my expensive MBPro. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 15:29 | comment | added | Applefanboy | Hi there - this was 4 years ago and subsequent to the post, my 17" MacBookPro did in fact expire after the motherboard fatally overheated. Since the model is no longer produced, a new replacement MB wasn't viable. When my tech support took it apart, the narrow and inaccessible ventilation channels were completely clogged up and something he described as wholly inadequate and unserviceable for any practical 'user' point of view. A design flaw then you might say or if you were cynical, designed in obsolescence. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 12:09 | comment | added | Arp | @Applefanboy could you please give me a hint of procedures I could do, mentioning the above examples as well in order for me to figure out how to make my fans work correctly? I am having a similar issue on my post apple.stackexchange.com/questions/392287/… | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | Applefanboy | Point of clarification - SMC Fan Control is useful to keep the Mac cooler 'beyond' the system fan settings, not simply as a monitor. For example, in a tower, if you add server ram or two graphics cards the fans will be up and down with performance, however, if you set them 25% higher through SMC the temp will remain stable. This also helps shutdown (MacPro wont shutdown if too hot - it will cool first). Stock MacBook I wouldn't install SMC because fan performance should be OK out the box. Fans running excessively are generally due to processor hogs like Adobe Updater and Flash - remove them. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 7:29 | history | answered | user1434077 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |