Re: HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Jay Smith
Now I read somewhere and as best as i can remember, a chap swapped out the apple hard drive for a new one in his iMac and the fan simply went full belt constantly. He claimed that he discovered that apple place a jumper on their hdd's to control the fans. He took out the new, replicated the jum

Re: HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Jonathan Smith
Have you installed or are you aware that Apple have temperature sensors plugged into their hdd's? It is much like a jumper and if you have missed it, this will account for why the fans are spinning full wack. Hope this helps Jay On 9 February 2011 16:16, Stuart wrote: > I have an iMac 21.5" 3

Re: HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
As 0 degrees Centigrade is freezing point - what exactly is smcFanControl measuring here? Is HD drive temp measured by an external probe or is it an onboard function - I use iStat menus, and hard drive temp measurement seems to be a function of SMART monitoring, but in my G4 iMac it just shows one

Re: HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 11-02-09 9:16 AM, Stuart wrote: Now HD fan starts slowly ~ 1,000 rpm, but after half an hour or so is doing 5400 rpm. Stays there. Temp all the time is cool at 41°C. (smcFanControl says temp 0°C, 5400 rpm) Curious as to what app you use or how you get those numbers because i have the same iM

Re: HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Tim Stephens
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:16:07AM -0800, Stuart wrote: > I have an iMac 21.5" 3.06 GHZ Intel Core i3. > > Orig HD 500 GB HD packed up so I took the opportunity to replace it > with 1T Seagate. Now HD fan starts slowly ~ 1,000 rpm, but after half > an hour or so is doing 5400 rpm. Stays there. Tem

HD Fan speed.

2011-02-09 Thread Stuart
I have an iMac 21.5" 3.06 GHZ Intel Core i3. Orig HD 500 GB HD packed up so I took the opportunity to replace it with 1T Seagate. Now HD fan starts slowly ~ 1,000 rpm, but after half an hour or so is doing 5400 rpm. Stays there. Temp all the time is cool at 41°C. (smcFanControl says temp 0°C, 5400