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Sonnet 350W / RX580 8GB on 2018 Mac Mini - Sonnet won't turn on. The GPU fans don't spin, but the blue light isn't on. I would like to know if Nvidia or AMD.

1. Nov 11, 2019  Once in a while, for no apparent reason, you may encounter the SPOD (Spinning Pinwheel of Death). It's that multicolored pinwheel mouse pointer that signifies a temporary delay while your Mac tries to figure something out. In this case, your Mac is trying to think but nothing happens, so the pinwheel keeps spinning, and spinning, and spinning.
2. Control fans on Apple computers, also on Windows via Boot Camp. Monitoring of fan speed and temperature sensors. Solve fan noise and overheating problems, iMac HDD replacement.
3. Oct 12, 2014 OS X actually includes kernel extensions that throttle the CPU in order to keep heat down. For example, OS X will start doing really easy resource-cheap things like synchronizing the time with time.apple.com in order to take up some CPU cycles wit.
4. Dec 28, 2019  @mini-i5. Yep, unfortunately I don't have a pc with tb3 in hand. There are 7 people who made builds with a mac and omen-acc. Don't know if anyone had or tried to update the fw in OA. Strange thing here is that mac mini 2018 behaves completely different than mbp 2018 seems to behave.

Hello Apple people,

Whenever I run BootCamp Windows 8.1, my MBP's fans are spinning like jet turbos. Is this normal for all old and new MBP models? I don't get this issue from Yosemite or Sierra and even if I run Adobe programs the fans don't spin as much as they do on Windows partition. My old MBP has less trouble overheating thanks to a new SSD. But the laptop will make awful fan noises when I switch back to Windows partition. It'll remain pretty darn noisy during the Windows update and regular software installation. Also my MBP overheats more often on Windows partition. I'm concerned about hardware components, such as the logic board and RAM, getting deteriorated due to the heat. The overheating is definitely not caused by accumulated dust (there's some dust hanging on the cooling fan duct but it's still not enough to cause any issue). Should I make some changes on the power setting by going to Control Panel -> Power plan-> Advanced power setting -> processor power management -> minimum processor state and then set it for around 5%? Someone mentioned these steps from an old BootCamp group forum. Does anyone have suggestions and recommendations? Are fan noise and overheating problems common for MBPs running on BootCamp Windows? Are these issues something related to BootCamp?

Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.2), has Samsung 850 EVO SSD installed

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