2/7/2024 0 Comments Cannot see istat pro![]() Selecting an external (instead of internal) video source for some iMac displays ![]() Responding to display lid opening and closing on portable Macs Responding to presses of the power button The System Management Controller (SMC) is responsible for many low-level functions on Intel-based Macs. Not sure at the moment why the plugging in of the magsafe while holding the power allows the system to boot. Taken from the Apple support page about resetting the SMC suggests all of these symptoms are related to non-communication with the SMC. "About this Mac" can not see the battery even though it is plugged in.Įverything else seems to work (Airport, USB, iSight, DVD, Disk) IStat menus can not sense either temperature or fan speed so access to those sensors is not there. Boots up into OSX but with a few caveats which I list below: PRESTO! The Macbook chimes and starts up but with fan on high speed. Release the power button and wait a couple of seconds. Continue to hold down the power button for 5 to 10 seconds. While continuing to hold the power button plug in the magsafe connector. With the magsafe disconnected press and hold the power button. ![]() No response to standard SMC reset procedure. The MBP will appear to be completely dead. Please feel free to add your own experiences/symptoms and hopefully we can get close to the HW solution. I suspect these are usually the result of some trauma or liquid spill that damages some aspect of the SMC control circuit. My advice is to try out a couple of different solutions and settle with what works best for your use case.In the hopes of generating some technical sharing on this particular HW issue I am starting up a thread to share the symptoms and potential solution to what appears to be a fairly common failure mode on the Macbook Pro 13" (and possible other unibody Macbooks). I have tried several different solutions, but in the end I came back to iStat Menus, since no other solution gave me a good enough overview without any effort on my part. My problem here is that my desktop is overcrowded, both in real life and virtually on my computer :) So I figured I needed to do a swipe gesture to be able to see anything They allow you to have custom widgets, for example integrated top instance running in the background. You can also run top, fstab and similar command-line tools from tools like GeekTool (mentioned before), or my current favorite, Ubersicht it's not installed by default as far as I know but should be easy enough to get via homebrew. If you are mostly working in a terminal then you cant really beat htop in my opinion. These are essentially behind all other tools. But the advantage is that they have more real estate to show graphs, give stats etcĬommand-line based utilities. I find these a bit frustrating to use since I need to actively look for the stats I am interested in, rather than just checking the menubar. Tools that are stand-alone or integrate themselves into the notification center. Often clicking on a small icon gives you more detailed info. These give you the best overview, at-a-glance in my humble opinion. Tools that embed themselves in the menubar e.g. You have essentially a couple of different type of options:
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