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Overheating after SSD instalation

Macbook White A1181 2.16 C2D overhaeted after SSD instalation. Temperature rise to 67-75 Celsius.

Freshly installed 10.6.8. Replaced themal paste with

Silver Arctic. Computer still hot!

Any ideas?

Thansk

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What were you doing when it got hot?

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SMC fan control turns fan at the high speed until it cools down

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try to restart the SMC, that drivers will restart

here the link APPLE to see how to do:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

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I did it right after installation. Than re applied thermal paste. Cleaned heat sink . Installed SMC fan control soft- now fan running at 2400 rpm and temperature rising to 60-70 Celsius sometimes.

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