I’ll try and make a long story shorter…
I have a 2015 21.5” Imac 4k. I upgraded the 1TB HD with a 512GB SSD drive quite a while ago but never did replace the adhesive. It was just taped together with clear packing tape at a few places. I decided recently that it was probably time to upgrade, so decided to put the adhesive strips on as I’d would either sell it or more likely give it to my Dad to replace his 2010 iMac. Well as you can guess I screwed up when putting the cables back. At first I thought I just bent the pins on the display cable so I ordered a replacement cable. The replacement cable wasn’t working either. In my frustration of trying a few times I wasn’t careful and the display actually slipped and I cracked the screen.
Anyway… so I decided to hook up an external monitor to see if it still worked and it does. However the fan goes at full blast, which I solved by using Mac Fan Control. But now system is just painfully slow. Does anyone know of a way to actually turn off the sensor so it doesn’t think it is overheating (it isn’t it just doesn’t get a response back from the display) so that the CPU will run at full speed? I poked around and couldn’t find anything.
While the system is at a loss for repairing (would cost more than it is worth since it is probably the screen and the connector now), nor is it worth anything to sell, I’d still rather use it with an external display as a spare than just "trash" it.
I have a 2015 21.5” Imac 4k. I upgraded the 1TB HD with a 512GB SSD drive quite a while ago but never did replace the adhesive. It was just taped together with clear packing tape at a few places. I decided recently that it was probably time to upgrade, so decided to put the adhesive strips on as I’d would either sell it or more likely give it to my Dad to replace his 2010 iMac. Well as you can guess I screwed up when putting the cables back. At first I thought I just bent the pins on the display cable so I ordered a replacement cable. The replacement cable wasn’t working either. In my frustration of trying a few times I wasn’t careful and the display actually slipped and I cracked the screen.
Anyway… so I decided to hook up an external monitor to see if it still worked and it does. However the fan goes at full blast, which I solved by using Mac Fan Control. But now system is just painfully slow. Does anyone know of a way to actually turn off the sensor so it doesn’t think it is overheating (it isn’t it just doesn’t get a response back from the display) so that the CPU will run at full speed? I poked around and couldn’t find anything.
While the system is at a loss for repairing (would cost more than it is worth since it is probably the screen and the connector now), nor is it worth anything to sell, I’d still rather use it with an external display as a spare than just "trash" it.
