Hello all. I'm new here and can find my way around a Mac a little not a proficient user by any means. I tried troubleshooting a problem I recently started having and made things much worse.
Background: I accidentally dropped my charger on the screen breaking it so I purchased a monitor from online and reinstalled it myself. I thought all was good until I realized that my hard disk could not stop spinning unless I close the laptop or power it down. I did some research online and learned that a particular process (kernel_task) was using the CPU at a rate of over 400% on average slowing everything down.
I decided to follow some instructions I saw on youtube that suggested I delete the .plist files which will force the PC to rebuild the files and fix the problem. The files are located at /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources/.
Instead of deleting the files I moved them to my desktop in a folder called Backup of Resources.
Problem: Now that I've done that the laptop brings be to the login screen, I try to login to my account and it acts like it's going to and then kicks me back to the login prompt again showing two of the user accounts that can login to the PC. I've tried both accounts, tried running numerous reboot/troubleshooting options and none work. My intent is to simply put the files back where they were and try to fix my kernel problem another way. No. I did not have my system backup in any manner (lesson learned).
Please, if anyone can help I'll appreciate it.
Background: I accidentally dropped my charger on the screen breaking it so I purchased a monitor from online and reinstalled it myself. I thought all was good until I realized that my hard disk could not stop spinning unless I close the laptop or power it down. I did some research online and learned that a particular process (kernel_task) was using the CPU at a rate of over 400% on average slowing everything down.
I decided to follow some instructions I saw on youtube that suggested I delete the .plist files which will force the PC to rebuild the files and fix the problem. The files are located at /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin.kext/Contents/Resources/.
Instead of deleting the files I moved them to my desktop in a folder called Backup of Resources.
Problem: Now that I've done that the laptop brings be to the login screen, I try to login to my account and it acts like it's going to and then kicks me back to the login prompt again showing two of the user accounts that can login to the PC. I've tried both accounts, tried running numerous reboot/troubleshooting options and none work. My intent is to simply put the files back where they were and try to fix my kernel problem another way. No. I did not have my system backup in any manner (lesson learned).
Please, if anyone can help I'll appreciate it.