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1. Mac mini 2011 fan replacement full#
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3. Mac mini 2011 fan replacement mac#

That went on for a month or 6 weeks then the machine died. Started restarting for no reason about once a week or so. While I type this the CPU is 42☌ and the GPU is 43☌.ĭon't forget to clean it with air from dust inside first (block the fan with the finger from rotating while doing this) This is my set up for TG Pro, I usually always have Unit圓D or Maya open so the GPU is always under comparable high load but it keeps running. Take a look at it, the developer offers a demo for it.

Mac mini 2011 fan replacement free#

I've already had higher fan speeds before by using a free tool, but this was not enough for this task because it would have required to overall set the speed of the fan way higher than necessary because it offered only one setting. This way I keep my mini always way below 65☌ and it usually is still comparable silent. I've bought a really good tool to override the control of my temperatures and fan speed which offers a complex way to setup fan speeds for different temperatures.

My mini runs perfectly since I've cleaned it from dusty and raised the fan speed (zero problems since then). Just never let it reach high temperatures again. If it happens just after restarting a hot machine then there is still a good chance to keep the mini alive.

If this happened at a fresh restart of a completely cool machine than it is a really bad sign.

Mac mini 2011 fan replacement mac#

So possibly sooner or later all Mac Minis with a HD 6300M might fail? They say "Production faults of the AMD graphics chip in the Mac Mini Mid 2011 have become known" (“ Bei Mac mini Modellen aus Mid 2011 wurde ein Fehler in der Produktion von ATI AMD Grafikchips bekannt.“) I hope it really was just overheating and my machine is fine now – but this is scary: I found a german company (smartmod) which offers a special repair service for the Mac Mini 2011 with Radeon HD 6300M video issues. Since cleaning from dust (8 hours ago) I had no more video issues so far although I had a permanent load on the GPU (Unity 3D) all of the time and even ran GPU benchmarks to provoke the issue. I've cleaned the Mini from dust with air (if you do that you should block the fan with one finger otherwise it may generate power which can damage the logicboard) and set higher base RPM for the fan with smcFanControl (3300 RPM). Some minutes later the it showed video issues again but I could do a regular shut down. After a short pause and a restart the GPU temperature was still way too high (80☌). Today the screen went pink with vertical stripes and my Mac Mini freezed. HDD Fan Control works to fix this issue by reading the drives internal temperature using the S.M.A.R.T protocol and set the fans actual speed to a value good to protect the drive.I had the same issues here (Mac Mini 2011 2.5GHz). Instead of HDDFan Control, get the free SSDFan Control It runs at startup and continually to always control the fan correctly, prevent the loud fan noise and protect the drive from overheating HDD Fan Control works to fix this issue by reading the drives internal temperature using the S.M.A.R.T protocol and set the fans actual speed to a value good to protect the drive. These programs will not work for this particular issue as they often only control the base speed, and if they do control the fans actual speed they rely on the temperature reported by the sensor which is now incorrect.

Resetting the SMC (System Management Controller) will have a temporary effect, but again the fan will speed up.įixes people have used in the past included:

Mac mini 2011 fan replacement full#

If you replace your drive, your iMac will initially seem fine, but soon the fan will begin to speed up to full speed. This is due to Apple replacing the external Hard Drive temperature sensor with a proprietary firmware and using the drives internal sensor.
Replacement drives do not contain the firmware to deliver temperature data on the temperature sensor cable.
When the iMac does not receive a good signal from the hard drive it puts the fan at full speed to protect the drive. Since the late 2009 iMacs came out, replacing the hard drive has caused the internal Hard Drive Fan to start running at around 6000RPM. Hi, likely the new Drive doesn't have the Termal sensor.