but may be good for a while longer.
Perhaps you might consider a blast of air into the fan vents to blow out any potential dust bunnies in there that may be restricting the flow of air.
Worth a try.
h'lo all,
my apologies in advance, I'm *SURE* this has been covered - probably in
detail - but search revealed too many results, so here goes...
I've got a refurbded early '06, 15" 2.16Ghz Core Duo MBPro, 2GB RAM.
It's given a couple of years great service, but lately it's started to
"auto-shutdown". Seems all heat/video related. I'm using MenuMeters to
monitor cpu's and SMC to monitor/regulate fans. Normally, it'll run
between 40C-60C with both fans running about 1500 rpm. Life's good.
But when I run, say, a YouTube video, or today Adobe Bridge photo
browser - anything that will cause the CPU's to run up to 100%, it'll
start moving up in temp quickly to 85-95 and it usually gets too high
before fans kick up to 6000+ and when it hits about 105C, it shuts down
the MBPro. Sometimes i can catch it in the mid-80's and manually kick up
the fans, but usually it runs up and shuts down too quickly for me to
catch it. Come to think of it, it's not just video, but anything that
CPU intensive. Last week I was trying to install 10.6.8 upgrade and it
shutdown before finishing the install. Took 3 tries.
So, I guess where I am is that; am I just asking too much of this
2.16Ghz Core Duo and time for a new MBPro? Would sure like to wring a
few more months out of it before going Lion, any suggestions?
many thanks

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