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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
