Computer heats up fast and slows down; is there a fix?
Dear IFIXIT,
I maintain my macbook pro(2010, 6,2, OS X10.95) with Disk Warrior and Drive Genius, clear the cookie cache regularly, using task manager in Chrome to lean out CPU load, use Memory Clean during heavy browser loads, and Apple’s Disk Utility to repair permissions. I have done all the “troubleshooting” tricks in the internet for speeding up performance to no avail. As the machine has gotten older it heats up faster and slows down more quickly.
Recently it started failing to boot, just shutting down. I let it sit for a couple of months while looking at options. Then on a whim I booted up on Disk Warrior, again, ran the director repair, and presto; was able to start up completely and run. No more problems like that since(1 month), but the heating up even under moderate work load is significant.
Is there a fix or a maintenance process to fix these issues? It’s a great machine and I feel like it still has a lot of service left in it..
Having watched a number of Louis Rossmann’s mac repair videos I kinda think that it might be a problem with some component on the logic board….
Thank you for your time and expertise.
RP
P.s. While the heating and performance issues have been building in recent years, one year ago, I did partition the drive(leaving headroom on each partition) so I could run software that required a later OS(10.13). After several months it seemed to create some difficulty returning to the OS x10.9 partition; slow starting. My solution was to move the 10.13 drive to an external bootable drive and to wipe that partition clean. It still exists; it’s just empty. This shouldn’t effect the main partition, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.
Is this a good question?
4 Comments
Let’s get a better view of things, install this gem of an app! CoconutBattery take a snapshot of the apps main window and post it here for us to see Adding images to an existing question
I'm suspecting your battery is holding you back.
by Dan
CoconutBattery huh? you're assuming I'm on battery power, right?
by Randy Paik
@tenyearsgood - This is an app to see what your batteries status is as well as the charger. click on the blue link to discover what it can do!
by Dan
Running os x10.9.5 on this laptop, CoconutBattery 3.6.3 downloads will not install. I get the white circle with the diagonal cross. Do you have a link to a download that works?
by Randy Paik