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IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 01:57
by conceptsottawa
I have a 27" 2010 IMAC running 10.11.2 . I can only get 1 fan showing not the HDD fan. Any ideas?
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 14:47
by conceptsottawa
Here is a Pic of what I see. Anyone?
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 22:11
by Steven
conceptsottawa
This iMac has only 1 fan, it's OK.
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 22:26
by conceptsottawa
It has 3 Fans. Macbooks might have 1 fan. Imacs have 3. I have opened it to confirm. 3 Fans
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 22:41
by Steven
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 23:03
by conceptsottawa
IMACS have 3 fans, the program does not show this. So I am not sure what your getting at? Is the program only supposed to show 1 fan for IMACS?
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 23:10
by Steven
conceptsottawa
There're more than 20 iMac models (iMac4,1, iMac6,1, .etc). Starting from model iMac13,1 every iMac has one single fan called Main. Before 13,1 there were 3 fans (called ODD, HDD, CPU)
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 23:16
by conceptsottawa
Mine has 3 fans, so how does this help me? The program does not show me the 3 fans. Am I missing something?
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 23:21
by Steven
conceptsottawa
Did you recently use Time Machine to restore this OS from one mac to another?
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 23:44
by conceptsottawa
I think I did yes. I also tried to delete the program re-download and re-run
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 11:05
by Steven
conceptsottawa
Can you run this bash commands?
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killall MacsFanControl
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.crystalidea.macsfancontrol.plist
killall -u `id -u -n` cfprefsd
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 14:38
by conceptsottawa
That did it. I now see all 3 fans. Thank You
Re: IMac only seeing 1 FAN
Posted: 16 Jan 2016, 20:58
by Steven
conceptsottawa
Can you please post a screenshot Mac's Fan Control ?
