macbook random shut down

Heroes · Post by **Heroes** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:24 am

i watched a programme last night about the macbook randomly shutting down for no reason, i was just wondering if any macbook or macbookpro useres on here have ever experienced anything like this. pretty scarry it seems to be a popular thing the show was claiming

The Phat Conductor · Post by **The Phat Conductor** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:09 am

happened to a ton of people on here too.

what a nightmare.

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:22 am

My brother has a macbook that did that, turned out to be his cheap ram, He had 1gb pre installed and 1gb added, the guy at the shop said it happens when the 1st GB is used and it starts usin the cheap one, thats when the book would turn off.

all fine now i think.

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:52 am

I can't believe the RAM explanation... sounds like BS to me.

It's either faulty Logic boards or a fault in the heatsink design where it would expand and cause a wire to short out.

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:08 am

beleive it or not, it was definatley the ram in his case. I cant speak for everyone else, but he bought his ram before the macbook arrived after release. The question is - how was the ram tested.

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:10 am

and then after a while it wouldnt boot up at all.

Until he removed the ram.

Mac's ay.

womoma · Post by **womoma** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:16 am

My macboook keeps shutting down. ive lost lots of work because of it. Im getting it repaired soon. They better sort it out or Ill go ape.

its a common problem and apple are being a$$h0l3s about it. They deleted the random shutdown thread on the official apple forum, fascists.

I love OSX, but I hate Apple.

I WOULD love my macbook, if it didnt shutdown every few minutes, and didnt take numerous attempts to boot up in the first place.

Heroes · Post by **Heroes** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:26 am

damn this sucks big time, last thing ya want, apparently theres some site about it that got 400 users a day registering for help, this tv programme said all apple would do was force you to contact apple care......kinda sad thing with apple now the hard drive in pace going foward brings windows and grey box style problems

robin · Post by **robin** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:53 am

Apparently there's a new logic board revision that fixes this problem (all postweek 37 builds have it). A guy I work with sent his back when it was failing and apple said they had a new logic board that fixes this.

datapopstar · Post by **datapopstar** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:54 am

wilxon wrote:My brother has a macbook that did that, turned out to be his cheap ram, He had 1gb pre installed and 1gb added, the guy at the shop said it happens when the 1st GB is used and it starts usin the cheap one, thats when the book would turn off.

all fine now i think.

but thats not the reason...my macbook comes back from service last week (rss) and they replaced the logicboard and the heatsink...now its fine.
it is a design fealure, 2 sensorkabel cause a shortcircuit on the heatsink...

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:00 am

datapopstar wrote:
wilxon wrote:My brother has a macbook that did that, turned out to be his cheap ram, He had 1gb pre installed and 1gb added, the guy at the shop said it happens when the 1st GB is used and it starts usin the cheap one, thats when the book would turn off.

all fine now i think.
but thats not the reason...my macbook comes back from service last week (rss) and they replaced the logicboard and the heatsink...now its fine.
it is a design fealure, 2 sensorkabel cause a shortcircuit on the heatsink...

I didnt say it was the reason, just merely told you what was wrong with his mac book.

Im a Fujitsu Siemens User and i have no problems.

wilxon · Post by **wilxon** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:00 am

datapopstar · Post by **datapopstar** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:13 am

wilxon wrote:
datapopstar wrote:
wilxon wrote:My brother has a macbook that did that, turned out to be his cheap ram, He had 1gb pre installed and 1gb added, the guy at the shop said it happens when the 1st GB is used and it starts usin the cheap one, thats when the book would turn off.

all fine now i think.
but thats not the reason...my macbook comes back from service last week (rss) and they replaced the logicboard and the heatsink...now its fine.
it is a design fealure, 2 sensorkabel cause a shortcircuit on the heatsink...
I didnt say it was the reason, just merely told you what was wrong with his mac book.

Im a Fujitsu Siemens User and i have no problems.

and i didnt say, you say thats the reason...but i think maybe someone is interested in anyway?

Heroes · Post by **Heroes** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:24 am

pain in the ass but nice to see it can get sorted, apparently this site has in 4 months had 100,000 people register with this related problem, its unreal how like 100,000 slip past quality control especially when one was saying he couldnt even boot up long enough to get a file off he needed.

anyways alls well that ends well think ill still wait a few more months before i dare delve

datapopstar · Post by **datapopstar** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:31 am

i thinks thats the best you can do...nobody knows if it will happen again whit the first generation of macbooks, just wait a bit, buy a second generation merom-macbook and, hopefully, be happy.....that problem beside, thats the best laptop i ever owned!!!
no shadow of a doubt.