cooperunionstud
04-21-2007, 05:34 PM
I have had my mac pro for about a week now. so far everything has been good except one thing. When i am under windows and running 3d max. depends on how long i have been rendering. the fan noise would all of a sudden shoot up VERY high. The Mac pro is generally very quiet so this sudden increase in noise seems to be abnormal. not only is the increase in noise very annoying. the noise does not go away. as the fan will keep spinning at a very high rate unless you turn the computer off entirely. Even then, when the computer restarts. the fan noise will return again and the only real way to stop the noise is to unplug the power cable and reinserting it back in and restarting.
anyone else notice similar problems in their mac pro? or dual woodcrest processors systems?
[UPDATE]
i just talked to an apple technician, and I have found the problem. I described the problem with the technician, and as usual he states that apple doesn't support Windows related problems as the softwares i was using were under windows. I asked him how i can duplicate the problem on the osx side since 3d max and realflow was'nt available under osx. he told me to boot with the installation disk and run a system hardware test to determine if the issue is related to hardware and not software. i was told that the system hardware test would tax all 8 cores, there fore creating a similar scenerio as realflow or 3d max rendering. and indeed, the test alerted me that the exhaust has an error. Now i hope this is isolated incident and not something accross the board with all 8 core mac pros. because other wise apple is in mighty trouble.
needlesly to say, i am getting a replacement computer. but thats complicates the fact that i have to move tons of files around to keep them while i wait for my new computer.
anyone else notice similar problems in their mac pro? or dual woodcrest processors systems?
[UPDATE]
i just talked to an apple technician, and I have found the problem. I described the problem with the technician, and as usual he states that apple doesn't support Windows related problems as the softwares i was using were under windows. I asked him how i can duplicate the problem on the osx side since 3d max and realflow was'nt available under osx. he told me to boot with the installation disk and run a system hardware test to determine if the issue is related to hardware and not software. i was told that the system hardware test would tax all 8 cores, there fore creating a similar scenerio as realflow or 3d max rendering. and indeed, the test alerted me that the exhaust has an error. Now i hope this is isolated incident and not something accross the board with all 8 core mac pros. because other wise apple is in mighty trouble.
needlesly to say, i am getting a replacement computer. but thats complicates the fact that i have to move tons of files around to keep them while i wait for my new computer.