occasional heating issue update

it is indeed handy to have coolbook on the menu bar and it shows that at the time when temperature went up to 80~90; the cpu was running at full speed.

at the task i was running where i underclock down to even 800mhz things were fine, but it just shot up to 2.5k ghz for no reason.

and after locking at the range of 800-1600, the temperature did indeed dropped to a more desirable temperature of 60 but still sticked to the upper limit at 1600 w/out reason.

all temperatures stated are Celsius.
there weren't any cpu intensive tasks running either; once again, i turned off everything after seeing the temperature went up.
since it has nothing to do with the GPU(every unibody mac user love to say this, but no, not the gpu this time )

for those who didn't know what happened prior; my macbook pro loves heat and more so reaching 80~90 w/out reason. venting is clean enough there is no visible dust gathered, it had been used with a cooler at home so it wouldn't be the entrapment from desktop material either.

drop me some clue?
thanks

 

Thermal paste starting to dry up from the exessive heat from the GPU ?

 

Increase your fan speed and it'll solve all of your problems.

 

i second what jackluo923 said. also try bringing it to a genius in an apple store to see what they can do about it.

 

problem is that when the notebook reached that temperature(80-90), the fan speed was already at 5.5krpm, yes the cap is at 6k but when there is no program running it shouldn't have happen.

if the CPU locked at max speed in short occasion, that's why, but when it got up there it just stay there until i do a reboot.

and yes, i will bring it to apple store later and see what they can do; but i thought of seeing if there is any resolution before going there since this is my only computer right now and i cannot afford a week of time off without it

 

Lock your fan RPM between 5.5k-6K.

 

that's not the best solution, isn't it?

 

Most likely the best solution in your situation is to take it to an Apple store, just to get their input. I wish you the best of luck on getting your problem fixed ASAP. They might need to ship it off for a little while, so don't be surprised.

 

and again, if i have the luxeries of putting aside my computer for few days i would have no trouble and send it out right away... but living in a desert(rainfall in edmonton is close enough to call it that); there isn't too many ways to spend your time here

i had posted the question at apple forum and hopefully someone can give me a solution, and i will be going to apple later for sure, but it really depends when.

while the problem isn't anything significant to the function of the notebook, i'd like to know a quicker way to solution. and if you like the humor, i'd love to get the new macbook pro as replacement (actually no, i hate glossy screen)

 

That's the best solution temporarily before he takes his computer to an apple store.

 

Well without running a full scale diagnostic with the equipment and checking the actual hardware everything else is just speculation.