Well I just upgraded my MBP with the latest firmware. I'm can't remember if I ignored this a few times, or if this is a recent update, but anyways. Everything is okay. I just wanted to share something I noticed immediately after the update and restarting.
My fans were quite loud and I worried that the update had caused a conflict with SMC. iStatpro reported over 6000 rpm while my cpu core temp was about 122ferenheit. My SMC reported it should be closer to 2700 rpm, but the temp was ~50celcius which is equal. Within 5 minutes the temp remained the same..and the fan speed dropped to normal speed.
As Han Solo would say...
"Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal."
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: "Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
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JimyTheAssassin Notebook Evangelist
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I had a weird thing happen, in that my virtual machine in parallels disappeared. Luckily I run parallels through boot camp so all I had to do was create a new virtual machine, and everything was the same.
You should notice a bit of a speed increase, and better allocation of ram now too. -
LOL, funny yet appropriate quote
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Sometimes after a significant update and subsequent first restart the fans act in overdrive. I don't know why, but I think it's normal. This has happened to me a few times on my iMac G5. After the second restart the fans return to normal speeds every time. -
Slightly off-topic, but I'd go so far as to default SMC Fan Control (or even default and then uninstall it) before any major OS or hardware update. You don't want a freak accident (maybe lightning will hit your laptop?) to get your fans stuck at 5k as the minimum forever
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JimyTheAssassin Notebook Evangelist
If my fans got stuck, I can imagine a digital Bill Gates walking onto my desktop as windows Icons flood my MBP. Bill says something like, "Now you know that Evil will always triumph..because good.. is Dumb!"
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my guess, they are recalibrating the speed after the firmware update.
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hey you have the same wallpaper as i am!!
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JimyTheAssassin Notebook Evangelist
Ya, the photographer really did an amazing job. I can't remember how I found it, but it always gets comments.
For anyone who isn't familiar, it's a night exposure of New York City, but I can't remember what avenue. I guess it's on the east side.. but here's a clue.. there's a sheraton in the left of the photo -
That Desktop is from InterfaceLIFT:
New York City by Paulo Barcellos Jr. - HDR image of New York's 9th Avenue.
They have good stuff on that site! -
JimyTheAssassin Notebook Evangelist
Yes, that's it.. thanks for the credit to the photographer. +1
aww, it won't let me give you more street cred.. guess I need to spread the love more first.. next time
EFI firmware 1.2, observation with SMC
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by JimyTheAssassin, Oct 8, 2007.