Ancient Software - I was using Sandvox and it is several years old. Probably older than the computer. Thanks Jonathan. I ¡®m going to print this out and keep it with the computer.
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On Oct 13, 2022, at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:
It is not likely the fan. It is more likely a program that got overzealous and caused the processor to heat up, thereby triggering the fan.
Easy way to figure out what is causing it is to bring up Activity Monitor (in Applications->Utilities). Make sure it is in the CPU section and click the CPU% column head to sort most to least and see which process is stressing the processor the most.
First try to close the app normally if you can. If it's a system process, so you will need to close it here. Click on that process in the list and hit the close button at the top (a circle with an x in it on Big Sur). Your fan will slow down in a few minutes and you should be good.
System processes will start again if they are needed, so this will not wreak the havoc that you might think it would. Often it will restart and behave itself until it doesn¡¯t again.
If none of this works, restarting the computer (as you have found) will most often solve it.
One cause of issues with the OS demanding more than it should of the CPU is using ancient software. ::-)
Jonathan
On Oct 13, 2022, at 11:40 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
Occasionally the fan on my MacBook Air runs continuously and noisily. I shut the computer down and restart the computer and the fan noise disappears. Should I replace the fan?? I googled ¡°how do I replace the fan on my 2013 MacBook Air and found instructions. It¡¯s pretty straight forward.
Thoughts.
Thanks.
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