Comments on: smcFanControl 2.2.2 released

By: MacMost – smcFanControl

MacMost – smcFanControl — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:21:10 +0000

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By: Edgar

Edgar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:51:57 +0000

Thank you so much!!!
I love it.
Works great on my 15″ MBP

By: fabianjul

fabianjul — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:48:23 +0000

works fine

By: Chuck Stone

Chuck Stone — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:09:28 +0000

My hard drive on my intel imac (late 2007) died, so the apple store installed a new one at a hefty price tag. After reading about the heat issues with the intel imac, I installed smcfancontrol 2.2.2 to avoid burning up another hard drive or even worse, the logic board. SMCfancontrol worked great the first day that I installed, but now it will not change the fan speeds (rpm) after switching to my “hot” setting. My “hot” setting is 4000 rpm for the HDD, but it is staying at 1200 rpm which is the default setting. I had the same issue with FanControl which led me to uninstall it, and, yes, I removed the 2 files from my library. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:57:14 +0000

Downloaded for my iMac and it seems to be working great. I downloaded it so I could monitor temperatures…my iMac seems to be hotter to the touch than I remember it being. iStat says the CPU is 61, diode 62, hard drive 52 and power supply is 69.

Anyone know what the temps are supposed to be? I had the computer shut off over night and booted it up 90 minutes ago.

By: waffle911

waffle911 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:02:48 +0000

Use it on my early ‘09 MBP 17″. Works flawlessly. Would be better if it could dynamically respond to user-defined thresholds.
I’d be very interested in seeing a version of this being ported to Windows using Boot Camp. The only alternatives I can find are mutually exclusive with kbdmgr, the Apple keyboard process that enables all of the OSX mapped special functions in Windows.

By: Imrabti

Imrabti — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:38:09 +0000

Works Perfectly on Snow Leopard GM Thanks.

By: GeorgGG

GeorgGG — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:07:08 +0000

Hello
As everyone said, its bug free app, works fine for me, thx, keep it good!

By: Robert Warner

Robert Warner — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:09:31 +0000

Works great! MBP (2008) OS10.5.8

Many thanks!

Regards,

Bob

By: Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:01:44 +0000

Great tool. I previously lost two hard drives at almost the same time to what I believed to be an overheating problem.

On my dual 2.66GHZ Xeon MacPro (first Intel MacPro) – when I login with an admin account the default values are 500rpm (Apple standard). I changed the default to 1000rpm. I can set the fan speeds up and down just fine. When I login with a non admin account, the default becomes 2000rpm and I cannot go below this. Needless to say this creates a wind tunnel effect.

Since I mostly login with a non-admin account for security reasons, how can I get smcFancontrol to not think the default is 2000rpm?

If I log into admin first, then my account, all is well. But this is not the way I’d like to login on a regular basis.

Best regards,