"coreaudiod" use all CPU%, overheat and crash iMac at 125%

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components:

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL:

AirPlay.driver

AppleAVBAudio.driver

AppleTimeSyncAudioClock.driver

BluetoothAudioPlugIn.driver

iSightAudio.driver

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS:

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST:

Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components:

Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Digidesign:

Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST:

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.

Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:

ls -1 {,/}Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/* 2> /dev/null

Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.

The previous message was edited after posting.

In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder... from the menu bar, copy the text on the line below into the box that opens, and press return:

/Library/Preferences/Audio

Delete the files in the folder that opens. You may be prompted for your login password. Then follow the instructions linked below.

Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested.

Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to bare metal from any of them.) Don’t erase the Lion recovery partition, if present.

I was having the same problem and finally fixed it after 4 hours and a good 30 different attempts at fixes from around the web.

I grabbed the Library/Preferences/Audio folder from another Mac I own, dropboxed it to myself, and dropped it into my the Preferences folder of the affected Mac after I noticed that folder was missing.

Reboot and boom, solved my problem.

Killing the process didn't help me, nor did PRAM, etc.

wkd415, thank you for posting this!!

Wkd415, thanks. Your suggestion worked. This fix should go to the top of the list. Too bad Apple has not already corrected the problem. You saved me a visit to our local mall and the Apple store!

Do you think the problem could be generated from the installation of this? :

http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/

Ben

I didn't have that software installed on my machine when I had the issue, however, I did have protools installed, and I previously installed and deleted OSCulator. So there may be some weird third party software reactions.

Protools was coming up in some of my search results, so I suspected it for a bit, but the fixes associated with that didn't help me. I had actually given up searching and was just comparing files on the two macs when I noticed the difference and made the swap just to try it out.

Is it possible for you to post a dump of that folder and or any relevant files (such as plist's) in that folder? If I could diff your folder/files to mine and see if there are any differences, that would be great