I have answered my own question and others may be interested to know  
what the problem was.
Activity Monitor showed that I had a Print job monitor hogging 99% of  
the CPU.
I managed to force quit in Activity monitor and hey presto the fan has  
stopped.
Nick

On 7 Apr 2009, at 08:53, Nicholas Holt wrote:

>
> Ever since spending an age online yesterday trying to fill in a form
> to get an Indian visa my Macbook fan has been going full pelt after
> switching on for only a few minutes.
> Have reset the SMC but to no avail.
> Repaired permissions
> Emptied cache
> 10.5.6
> Its 29 months old and so far been fault free.
> Any thoughts gratefully received.
> Nick
>
>
> >



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