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Chow Andrew

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Jan 20, 2020
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My iMac 2019 is randomly shutting down and sometimes have kernel panic where I cannot boot it up also. When I successfully booted it up and entered apple diagnostic mode it returns the error of ppf004 with error of ppf003 which is suspected to be a fan undetected error. The problem is checking with Macs fan control I can see that the fan is not running but the temperature of the computer is just like ~66℃ which means the computer should not be randomly shutting down due to overheating. Is there any possible reason the computer is having such issue? Many thanks.
 
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Fishrrman

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Feb 20, 2009
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Sounds like the fan has either
- failed (not running at all)
or
- has become so clogged with dust that it won't work right.

Either way, sounds like the fan needs to be cleaned or replaced.
 
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