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I have the same issue and I just started looking into it. It was fine before my most recent upgrade. I have a list of loaded kexts from before and after the upgrade and I note some changes which I am looking at one at a time. I hope to hit the one that changed the fan behavior at some point this week.

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ACPICPUThrottle.kext no longer works on 10.4.8. It's what uses speedstep to decrease the CPU clock to save battery. Because of the high CPU clock, much more heat is generated, needing the fan to cool the laptop. That heat makes the fan stay on. Many laptop users are waiting on a fix for this.

 

It is discussed here-

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...4915&st=360

 

You could downgrade to 10.4.7 and install that kext, but that is a downgrade and other hardware may have issues with it.

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I was able to get my fan speeds back to the way they were before the 10.4.8 upgrade by grabbing the file "AppleIntelCPUPowermanagement.kext" from the 10.4.8 Delta Update (from Apple). I used Pacifist to extract it to my desktop and then moved it to /System/Library/Extensions/ and repairing permissions and rebooted. I don't notice any degradation in performance of the system, just much less time spent with the fan running. It still will come on under heavy CPU use, like it should.

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