Any ideas on what it will cost to replace the cpu sensor?
~$60+labour (1 hour). If you are going to have it opened up, have the thermal paste checked first, if it's dried up it could be causing the CPU to overheat (see it at least once a month); all it would take is cleaning and re-applying the thermal paste and it would be labour only, no parts (unless you are charged for 1/3 a shot of thermal paste).
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Took my Mac to the apple store today. Very cool how the Apple Store app checks you in and tells you how long you have to wait. The genius hooked my Mac up to some apple online diagnostic thing and of course everything reported working fine, but I showed her that it wasn't fine by scrolling my Facebook wall and she could see the CPU temp shoot up to close to 90. So they are going to keep for a few days to run some extra tests on it.
Maybe they should have just used your AHT disk for a diagnosis
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Originally Posted by motoyen
I ran the AHT and it came up with this error code:
4SNS/1/40000000: TCOD - 111.125
CNET has a breakdown of the error codes and according to that list mine is the temperature sensor on the cpu. This would make sense as the cpu seems to get hot for no reason at all. ... ... ...
Got the call from Apple today. Temp sensor is borked so whole logic board has to be replaced. $500 for a computer I will get rid of the nano-second Apple releases the new iMacs.
I think for that crazy price I'd put up with the fan's speed until I got back to civilized service and a more realistic charge that G-Mo suggested, like ~$60+labour (1 hour).
And a logic board replacement to fix a goofy temp sensor seems a bit much, when even some proper cleaning and new thermal paste application as G-Mo also suggested seems to fix the problem. Heck. you could even do that yourself assuming that they don't charge $100.00 or so for the good paste in Japan!!
I think for that crazy price I'd put up with the fan's speed until I got back to civilized service and a more realistic charge that G-Mo suggested, like ~$60+labour (1 hour).
And a logic board replacement to fix a goofy temp sensor seems a bit much, when even some proper cleaning and new thermal paste application as G-Mo also suggested seems to fix the problem. Heck. you could even do that yourself assuming that they don't charge $100.00 or so for the good paste in Japan!!
question:have you ever disassembled and worked on this model of machine?
It's expensive and annoying, especially for a machine that I'm going to get rid of as soon as the new iMacs are released but I've killed enough Walkmans as a kid to know I shouldn't try to take apart my MBP myself.
As a side I'm so pissed that Apple didn't release new iMacs at WWDC. What can they be possibly waiting for?
question:have you ever disassembled and worked on this model of machine?
Yup, and other similar models.
I've even been into my own earlier Apple MacBook Pro "Core 2 Duo" 2.2 15" model, but not because of any CPU temp sensor problem, and why would you ask the question????
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