MacBook Pro Retina Fan Issues

Hi,


I bought a macBook Pro Retina just under a month ago, and have been experiencing some issues with the fan speeds.


I can be just browsing the web or checking emails or playing music through iTunes, and the fans will spin up to full speed for a minute or so, and then return to normal.


I have reset the SMC, the PRAM and repaired the Disk and Disk Permissions, with no luck, I've also tried a full format and reinstall with no luck either.


I have seen that others have been experiencing similar issues, and wanted to get some advice on where I can go from here.

Attached below is a Screen Grab of my temps and fan speeds. The fans were at normal speed for a few minutes, then went up to a high speed, back down and then back up again, and kept repeating.


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Thanks in advance,


James.

Posted on Jan 23, 2013 12:25 PM

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Mar 5, 2013 1:56 AM in response to Kirawang

Do you know that for a fact or are you just speculating, as far as I know Samsung still provide 512 SSD's as well. Apple uses at least two manufacturers for their SSD's (Samsung and SanDisk), size has nothing to do with which manufacturer you may end up with in your machine.


You lost reputation when you said that the logic board would need replacing to fix the fans problem, which doesn't make any sense. If the problem really is related to the SSD firmware then the SSD firmware is on the SSD m-SATA board which is the only user replaceable component in a rMBP, there is one screw holding the whole SSD assembly in place and its a really easy to swap out. It's so small it looks almost like a memory module for a laptop rather than an SSD unit.

Mar 5, 2013 5:47 AM in response to jamezmbp

I also have the fan problem on my rMBP from 2012 (APPLE SSD SD512E Media) which I bought just before the 2013 model came on the market. I did some resets with Apple phone support, which didn't solve the problem. I followed their advice to take it back to the store, after deleting all my data. But the store couldn't reproduce the problem.


So, a couple of days ago, I switched off Spotlight (Preferences - Spotlight - <uncheck all boxes there>) and the machine has been fine ever since. Fingers are crossed it stays that way, but it might well be that it is only a trigger, and the problem comes back by another trigger. So it's more of a workaround than a solution.


Let me know whether this works for you guys as well.

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