Macbook pro gets overheated despite having applied thermal paste just 1 month ago
I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, 10 gb ram, 500 gb hd and 128 gb SSD.
1. For the last 25 days, since putting SSD and re-installing OS and all apps, the Mac has been shutting down almost daily. It either shuts down and restarts itself - or hangs interminably, forcing an external restart.
2. Suspecting that the problem may be overheating, I stared monitoring temprature using Istats. I discovered that the temperature would shoot to 90-100 degrees centigrade, even when the outside temp was cool. Activity monitor shows that nothing, CPU or anything else, is having an overload.
3. Started using constantly with cooling pad, and that decreased frequency from 2-3 times a day to once a day or once in two days.
4. In the last week, the problem became worse. Initially by increasing the internal fan to full speed using Istats control, I could get the temp under control (to the normal of 50-60 degrees). But after 2-3 days even with full fan, the temp kept spiking up and refused to cool down, requiring restart.
5. I started working in AC constantly and still the temp refused to stay down.
Additional problems: These are probably unrelated problems, but am mentioning it in case they are connected.
1. Safari would stop connecting to the net at least once a day - even when I could access the same sites with other browsers. After some time, the problem goes away on its own - only to come again the next day.
2. I keep a time machine (TM) backup and a non-TM backup. For non-TM backup, I tried sync folder pro, but it started deleting my files and creating huge delsync folders, so I shifted to folder sync. But for 410 GB syncing, it took 3 days and still couldn't complete because either the app would crash or the Mac would hang or shutdown. Also it was syncing files that I hadn't touched for years - don't know why.
3. Spotlight search finds some applications and doesn't find others eg it finds firefox, but not opera or chrome. I have to go to apps folder to find and open those apps - now I have started keeping them in the dock.
4. Smart folder search doesn't detect some files, even when they are present. Doing re-indexing didn't solve the issue.
5. I shifted to Mac 2 years ago and I have had so many issues - slow, shutting down etc - that I have had to do clean install 7 times till now. And after each install, it works well for a month or two and again gives problems.
6. I am a writer and my machine is usually on for 18 hrs daily. I shifted from windows to Mac believing that it would be stabler system, but I have had to spend more time on the machine in 2 years than what I had spent on windows in the last 10-15 years. It's been an overall unsatisfactory experience - and that's putting it mildly.
Thank you for your help.
Ccd
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 500 gb HD, 128 gb SSD, 10 gb ram
