{"id":212,"date":"2008-12-22T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bolis.com\/testwp\/story\/imac-intel-fan-stuck-on\/"},"modified":"2016-11-27T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T08:43:48","slug":"imac-intel-fan-stuck-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/imac-intel-fan-stuck-on\/","title":{"rendered":"iMac intel fan stuck on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a short power outage, and when the power resumed, the fan in our iMac (intel core duo) was stuck on full speed.  It sounded like a jet plane.  I waited a minute or two for it to slow down, but it didn&#8217;t stop.  Even rebooting didn&#8217;t affect it.<\/p>\n<p>After some Internet searching, I found that there is a chip which controls the fans, which can get stuck like this.  Fortunately it can be reset also.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually found the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1543\">iMac intel reset procedure<\/a> at the Apple support web site.  The procedure varies with the model, but this was the correct one for my iMac core duo.<\/p>\n<p>The basic procedure is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Unplug all cables from the computer, including the power cord and any display cables.<\/li>\n<li>Wait at least 15 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Plug the power cord back in, making sure the power button is not being pressed at the time. Then reconnect your keyboard and mouse to the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Press the power button on the back to start up your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thirty seconds later, it was fixed.  I like nice simple solutions.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"links inline\">\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_42 first\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/category\/primary-topic\/mac\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"\">Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"taxonomy_term_35 last\"><a href=\"\/amillar\/topic\/mac\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Apple Macintosh computers\">Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Submitted by amillar on Mon, 2008-12-22 13:15                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a short power outage, and when the power resumed, the fan in our iMac (intel core duo) was stuck on full speed. It sounded like a jet plane. I waited a minute or two for it to slow down, but it didn&#8217;t stop. Even rebooting didn&#8217;t affect it. After some Internet searching, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/imac-intel-fan-stuck-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iMac intel fan stuck on&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project","tag-mac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolis.com\/amillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}