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I don't know too much about that stuff though, or how helpful it might be. Resetting the system management controller might do the trick, or running a hardware test might give you some indication of the problem. If none of that works, I'm not sure what I would recommend. And on a side note, if you run Firefox, you must have Adblock Plus.
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If you want the choice to disable flash on any website, download FlashBlock. You can get the add-on for Firefox here check the 'disable flash' box in the preferences. The only time I really use flash is when I watch YouTube videos, so I disabled flash and enabled html5 video playing for the site. Apparently, Macs and Adobe Flash don't work too well together. Disable Flash - Running flash videos, games, or whatever inevitably requires a lot of processing power. My understanding is that if it's not an application that is eating up CPU, and it's some natural process like kernel_task, WindowServer, or mdworker, then you don't want to mess with it.Ĥ. I also found that Dropbox was using a little more memory than it should have been and I changed its settings so it doesn't open automatically on startup. In my list of processes, I found that iTunes would occassionally glitch out and hog a ton of my CPU, so when I see those bars go up on my dock I restart the program. Once open, there is a nice little graph along with some quick numbers at the bottom to give you a picture of memory usage. Drag it onto your dock so you can have a live status of CPU usage. You can find it in your utilities folder. Activity Monitor gives you a list of processes and what percentage of your memory they are using, so perhaps you can diagnose what program is causing your computer to overheat.

Activity Monitor - how much of your memory is being eaten up and by what processes? Perhaps you have a program that is eating up all of your processing capability thus heating up your computer. it's never done this in the past so perhaps I burnt it out or something.ģ. I'm not sure what this says about my 2600M GT card. You can see if you have more than one chip by going to your hardware specs and then the graphics/display specs. I have a 2009 15" Macbook Pro with two video cards, a 2400M and 2600M GT, so switching preferences switches which video card I run on. Energy Saver Preferences / Video Cards - are you running on 'higher performance' or 'better battery life?' I found that when I switched to 'better battery life' my computer is much, much cooler it makes sense. Two, is that you can adjust fan speed which may reduce overheating.Ģ. Once installed and opened, you will see the measurements up on the menu bar at the top of your display. One, is that you can easily monitor temperature and fan speed, and having these measurements will allow you to gauge whether the next steps you take to reduce overheating are actually working. Download smcFanControl first and foremost, for two reasons: I'll sum up what information I've gathered to help the next person reading this thread diagnose their problem(s).ġ. This thread has a lot of good information, so I'd encourage everyone to read all the way through it. Now save your wallpapers where ever you want on your computer and i didnt have to worry about the wallpaper changing back to default.I've been researching all day to find out why my macbook is overheating so regularly and I found a few common solutions.
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If you can't find it on your OS X Install Drive then you can make one by typing Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ist I found this file in my Lion install drive.
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One basic solution for this is to save your wallpapers in the HDD where you've installed the MAC OS X.īut I didnt want to save all my wallpapers in Native Mountain Lion HDD, so i figured out my perfect fix.!! What happens is that when your OS X boots up it does not find the path to your wallpaper since the HDD you've saved your wallpapers in has not mounted yet.
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MAC OS X Lion / Mountain Lion does not save your wallpaper on the native HDD, rather tries to load the wallpaper from the original HDD, i guess only the path to the wallpaper is saved in the OS X settings.

The wallpaper you set was on another drive.Īnd this drive loads after your settings are loaded. If your wallpaper changes back to default (Galaxy) after reboot or after logout it is because
