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    Macbook (early 08) fan speeds

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by corujo712, Dec 17, 2008.

  1. corujo712

    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    I leave my macbook on pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Is this bad?

    And most nights i get woken up by the fans coming from my macbook. The temps are normal but the fan is at 6000rpm. The only program running is utorrent. (when i watch movies it goes up to about 3000-4000 rpm)

    Could there be something wrong with my motherboard?
     
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    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    That's odd. The fans shouldn't be running unless the CPU is under stress... I RARELY hear my fans go off unless I'm playing games or heavily multitasking.
    uTorrent must be doing lots of things in the background... have you tried Transmission instead?
     
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    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    I use utorrent through wine or crossover for the scheduler
     
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    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    it is completely OK to leave your notebook turned ON 24/7.

    it seems the problem you're having is because you run too many background processes perhaps? is the disk full? are you cluttering your desktop? keep your desktop clean. is uTorrent for mac still in beta? are you running windows? in OS X there is a maintenance procedure that usually run at 2:00AM if im not mistaken, google cron job for more info.
     
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    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    -I close everything before i go to sleep (only have utorrent running through wine or crossover)

    -My disk still has 85gb free

    -Only 4 icons on my desktop

    -utorrent mac is still in beta and does not have scheduler (i dont use this one)

    -not running windows

    -any ideas on how to sop the cron job
     
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