If I choose to fry my CPU, or disconnect the battery, or interfere with any component on the motherboard, that should be my right without any built in codes by the manufacturer to prevent me from doing this. After all, I paid for my laptop years ago, and it is well out of warranty. That is until I realised the computer no longer recognised the battery, the fans suddenly started doing 6200rpm, and something called kernel.task was using 300% CPU time, resulting in my machine now being mega-slow.Īpparently this is a panic reaction to temperature sensors reaching 100C or thereabouts and designed to prevent the user from commencing any activity which might push the temperatures any higher.Īll very logical you might reply, but I do not believe this was just coincidence. My Macbook started up with the power button for the first time in weeks, and I was very grateful. I was told that maybe taking the back off and disconnecting the battery for 60 seconds would solve the problem, which it did. However, this only happened after my machine would not switch on at all. I have exactly the same problem with my 2012 Macbook Pro. I have a more cynical and conspiratorial answer to this.
