MacBook Pro 13 2010 High CPU usage

AlexSkr96 · April 12, 2018

Recently I had to take apart my 2010 MacBook Pro 13. After something very strange started to happen: I have extremely high CPU usage by the Mac OS while bottom lead is on, but as soon as I take it off, everything is back to normal. Does anyone have any idea, what could it be?

Airdragonz · April 12, 2018

Could be thermal throttling?

AlexSkr96 · April 13, 2018

I'm pretty sure it's not since CPU usage itself goes up significantly in System Monitor (Task Manager) as soon as i put the lead on. I also found, that there is a number of pins which are being pressed down when I put a lead on. I tried pressing them one by one and nothing happens, but I assume they are responsible for that because there is no other way for a laptop to know that lead is on.