Parallels For Mac Overheating

 

Yes,
I got few issues with MBA heating.
I had to have my first MBA replaced for fan failure, and that's ok... it can happen.
My second one works fine but it heat up quickly. As soon as I launch a streaming video it start clocking down the CPU and then shut down one of the CPU. At that point the machine becomes sluggish... mouse can't be controlled properly because it moves crazy and the fan goes at 6200 RPM.
Only solution so far... notebook cooler which will solve the problem but also delete immediately the beauty of a tiny design since you have to sit on a two inch block. And not to mention the noise...
I hope a next update will fix the fan letting it start sooner, like it has been done for the MB.
Rocco
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Mar 3, 2008 5:41 AM

Just bought a new MacBook and love it, especially the ability to run Windows through the Parallels system, but there’s one thing that’s driving me totally crazy: every once in a while it randomly shuts down with no warning. It’s $#@$#@$@# frustrating! What’s going on?

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Apparently, there was a design fault with the heatsink in the first generation of MacBook and that’s what you’re experiencing: the system gets hot enough and shuts down so it doesn’t fry any circuitry. So in a weird sort of way, the shutdown is better than the alternative, but I can imagine how incredibly annoying it would be to constantly live under the threat of losing work or worse.
Fortunately, there’s a well-known fix that Apple can apply to your MacBook which involves swapping out the heatsink with another heatsink. They wrote about the shutdown problem in what could possibly be the world’s shortest knowledgebase article on the site: MacBook: Shuts down intermittently.
Their suggestion? Contact AppleCare for help. Or do what I do and call 800-SOS-APPL and schedule a pickup and repair over the phone.
Note that it’s possible that MacBooks purchased today could still have this heatsink problem, and the way to test it is to push the device and see if you can get it to overheat. Here’s one way that the folks at MacFixIt suggest:

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  1. Open Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal.
  2. Type in the following command: yes > /dev/null & followed by Return. It’ll look like this:
  3. Now type in the command a few more times and you’ll have a number of processor-intensive commands slamming along in the background.

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It should take no more than 15 minutes for your MacBook to either shutdown or demonstrate that you aren’t plagued by the intermittent shutdown problem. If you’re okay, then type in kill %1 %2 %3 for as many jobs as you started up (e.g., what I’m showing would work if you started three jobs. If you did four, add “%4” too).
The Apple service document for this problem explains to the technicians that: “The new heatsink part is now available for order in GSX and should ship later this week: 076-1243 Heatsink Kit, with Sponge, 1.0 mm Conn The MacBook (13-inch) Service Manual has been updated with this information and is available via links on AppleCare Service Source.”
SO now you know. Get that heat sink fixed and enjoy that sweet little laptop! Me? I want one, but I’m waiting until the tablet form-factor MacBook is released… 🙂

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I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!