1) Does Activity Monitor suggest anything is running in the background that 
is requiring a high %age of CPU, which may well cause the fan to kick in?
2) sounds like a graphics driver issue... and I hate to state the obvious, 
but have you shut down and restarted? It can reset things enough to make 
the thing behave sometimes!



On Monday, December 10, 2012 1:45:55 PM UTC, Ranulph Glanville wrote:
>
> I have a not quite most recent MacBook Air 13", 6 months old. 
>
> In the last couple of days 2 strange things have started happening. 
>
> 1)        A what sounds like a fan has taken to blowing loud and hard and 
> long. The sound seems to come from the top left of the computer. 
>
> 2)        When I open the lid, the screen comes up with long horizontal 
> lines where bits of the picture seem to extend and overlap. This clears. 
>
> Any thoughts? 
>
> Thanks, Ranulph 
>

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