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This old Mac: PRAM reset redux

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by: Alan Browne - Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:57 UTC

Lately my iMac's (late 2012 i7 quad-core HT) fan would fire off under
moderate load. Seemed to me to be over the top.

I planned to take it apart and clean out dust which I believed might be
the culprit. Taking apart the iMac is not a light effort: probably 1
hour+ in and out to do it well.

So I decided to do an SMC reset / PRAM reset instead before embarking on
that task.

I began with the PRAM reset.

That seems to have resolved the issue - so didn't bother with the SMC
offset.

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by: Jolly Roger - Sat, 11 Mar 2023 02:15 UTC

On 2023-03-11, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>
> Lately my iMac's (late 2012 i7 quad-core HT) fan would fire off under
> moderate load. Seemed to me to be over the top.
>
> I planned to take it apart and clean out dust which I believed might be
> the culprit. Taking apart the iMac is not a light effort: probably 1
> hour+ in and out to do it well.
>
> So I decided to do an SMC reset / PRAM reset instead before embarking on
> that task.
>
> I began with the PRAM reset.
>
> That seems to have resolved the issue - so didn't bother with the SMC
> offset.

Interesting.

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Subject	Author
This old Mac: PRAM reset redux	Alan Browne
Re: This old Mac: PRAM reset redux	Jolly Roger