screen and fan

[Ranulph Glanville]

I have a not quite most recent MacBook Air 13", 6 months old.

In the last couple of days 2 strange things have started happening.

1) A what sounds like a fan has taken to blowing loud and hard and long. The sound seems to come from the top left of the computer.

2) When I open the lid, the screen comes up with long horizontal lines where bits of the picture seem to extend and overlap. This clears.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Ranulph

[mac98aop]

1) Does Activity Monitor suggest anything is running in the background that is requiring a high %age of CPU, which may well cause the fan to kick in?

2) sounds like a graphics driver issue... and I hate to state the obvious, but have you shut down and restarted? It can reset things enough to make the thing behave sometimes!

[Ranulph Glanville]

Thank you.

I should never ask a question when I'm tired. Restart. Yes, first thing to do after checking the leads connect!

And there was a website that seems incapable to ceasing to try to download in the background.

Might have thought of this, if I'd been awake!

Ranulph

[Tony Crooks]

i’ve just created a Fusion Drive on a 2011 Mac Mini (Processor  2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory  8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3) and have noticed a significant improvement in overall performance. However, in reading around the internet there may be some downsides if handling large files. If I’ve understood the issue correctly the worst it can get is performance as though there is only an HDD installed, so would not be a total disaster.

Has anyone had Fusion Drive experiences of this? 

The experience of taking a Mac Mini completely apart to install a second drive and then reassembling it all was pretty painless apart from reaffixing the antenna shield which would no longer take all the screws - a problem I’ve read others have had when replacing the hard drive. Actually I found it interesting how the Mac Mini is laid out to get so much in the small space - must have been arrived at by trial ad error, surely?

Regards,

Tony

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Regards,

Tony

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