Hi Jon & John, First to John, I can’t remember someone saying to “switch the power off after pressing the startup button”?
Are you sure or did it mention: 1. Shut down 2. Remove the power cord from the back of the iMac, wait 15 seconds and plug it back in. 3. Startup the iMac Another fix for the loud fan noise, is to reset the SMC Reset SMC (System Power Controller): 1. Shut down the computer. 2. Unplug the computer's power cord. 3. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. 4. Release the power button. 5. Attach the computers power cable. 6. Press the power button to turn on the computer. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 30/03/2011, at 7:32 PM, John Daniels wrote: > > Hi Jon > Someone in WAMUG gave me the answer to the loud fan problem a while ago and > it works. As soon as you press the start button, if the fan is loud switch > off at the power point and then start again. I don't know why it works. Try > it. > Cheers > John > On 30/03/2011, at 11:56 AM, Jon Davison wrote: > >> >> Hi there. Our office has a new 27" iMac. All fine except a fairly loud fan >> that comes on pretty much at any time. The fan stays on but does not >> increase in volume. Nor does it heat up or freeze. >> Any idea what this may be? is there a reset for this? >> >> 2.66GHz / 4Gb RAM / OSX 10.6.7 / 1Tb >> >> Kind regards >> Jon >> >> >> >> >> Eye in the Sky Productions >> Image makers to the Aviation Industry >> Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle >> Western Australia 6160 >> • Air-to-air photography >> • Print & web design/production >> • VR panoramas >> • Book production >> • Copywriting >> • Corporate ID >> T: 08 94335541 >> M: 0403 235938 >> E: [email protected] >> W: <http://www.eyeinthesky.com.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
