10 
4 
1 Temps high and fan spins higher than usual.
So after an incident where the fan connector came loose. The cowling melted (slightly). After reconnecting the fan, everything seems fine. This mini is a server model and is dual-booting OS-X Server and normal High Sierra. On Snow Leopard server, it runs fine and not too hot. But, on High Sierra, it goes up to 90C and the fans go full speed. I made an AHT USB drive and all test pass just fine.
Is it an SMC issue? Do i need to replace the cowling, thermal paste or board? Or should I try reinstalling High Sierra?
Update
I wrote a little batch script that checks the temps every second and outputs it to terminal. On the OSX Server, everything’s chill as usual. But, on High Sierra, the mac boots, temps are around 57 degrees (ok looks fine), then they ramp up 0.1-0.2 degrees every second until it hits around 76. Stays there for a minute, fans roar. Temps go down, fans ok. But there’s not a single process using much CPU and the activity monitor pins the CPU at 90%. I will try resetting the SMC, NVRAM etc. and if that does not work, try reinstalling the High Sierra install. But will have to back everything up first.
Again, i don’t think a melted cowling should cause these kind of issues. But I could be very wrong.
Another Update
I had an emergency and wasn’t near my system. I took a screenshot about every minute. The die does seem to get HOT. Maybe thermal paste? But it also only happens starting 30s after it logs in, and then a few mins later it seems like nothing happened… Will definitely reinstall macOS High Sierra because that just isn’t right.
The images:
Melting
10:25:54
10:26:55
10:28:20
10:28:34
10:29:07
좋은 질문입니까?
댓글 3개
What is your drive setup? One or two HDD's or SSD's
Dan 의
@danj 1 SSD, 1 HDD. But temps were normal for a long time.
Max Tech 의
I had heat issues with my 2011 Mac mini when I had two HDD's, I ended up going with two SSD's. But I don't think my problem is like yours. As the problem was when I was running the system hard as my backup server.
I think we need to look deeper here. Lets install this great app TC Pro similar to your batch script it offers a logging function that is able to capture all of the thermal sensors in a neat spreadsheet with the full version if you want that. I don't think that needed here.
Lets just take a snapshot of the apps main window so we can see all of the sensors and fan's, make sure you get all of the sensors! Resizing the window will likely be needed. Post it here for us to see 기존 질문에 이미지 추가하기
Dan 의