Monday, 18 July 2011

A workaround for the MacBook 6200 rpm issue

As it happened to many of you after installing Snow Leopard a couple of years ago the fan of my MacBook went crazy. Even at low CPU temperatures (60 C) it keeps staying at 6200 rpm. The bizarre thing is that putting the MB on sleep and waking it up the rpm stays low. I tried the standard procedure (reset SMC and PRAM, as explained in Apple documents) but nothing changed. Then I've found this page, which makes use of the smc binary of smcFanControl tool. You may find smcFanControl here.

Then from Terminal I typed (the $ sign is the prompt. Don't type it):
 $ cp ~/Downloads/smcfancontrol_2_2_2/smcFanControl.app/Contents/Resources/smc /usr/local/sbin  ...


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