I really wish Apple would return to the days they branded other people's hardware and wrote their own device drivers. Not that Epson is perfect, they just suck less.
#Smc fan control mac os x 10.4 software#
It doesn't matter how good the hardware is, the software is barely one step above malware. Bad enough that nobody should buy Canon printers or scanners for OS X.
#Smc fan control mac os x 10.4 drivers#
Canon's OS X device drivers for scanner and printer alike are not just bad, they're unspeakably bad. The really annoying thing is that I wrote about the same problem on my G5 iMac years ago. jpg print job in the Canon printer queue. I killed it and eventually found a stuck. The #!$$! print queue was out of control.
I suspect PRAM zapping is all fake now, like office thermostats that don't connect anywhere. Then I did a PRAM refresh - which never does anything for me on modern Macs. The machine was running with a CPU temp of 68 C instead of a more normal 58 C and the fan was racing to cool it down. That clears up most minor problems, but not this one. So instead of going right to the problem I did a 'safe start' (reboot while hold shift key). That never happened in the days I managed multiple PCs at home - I was always in top debug shape. I guess we've just had too much stability for too long. (The default setting shows the Processes for the current user only, so you'll often miss an other user or system process.) Set it to show 'All Processes' and look for one that's out of control.
Go to Applications:Utility and launch 'Activity Monitor'. I'm a bit out of practice, so I forgot the first rule of a berserk fan. The 1.5 yo MacBook was fine on restart, but as soon as I logged into any user account the fan went wind tunnel. I figured it was some crummy Adobe Flash code running wild in a child's session. I wonder how regular folk ever keep computers running.Įmily emailed me about the roaring mid-day, though she didn't know it was the fan (why should she?). I figured out what was wrong, but it took longer than it should have.
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