Arghhh random shutdown ...

I've had my MacBook for about 2 months now and have never had any problems with it ... until two days ago.
It was working fine then it powered off, and after switching back on it would power off after a few seconds.
It was fine yesterday but has done it again today, it sems to start better without the power cable attached.
Having seen several threads about this I can't decide whether I should take it into the apple shop and ask them to repair it (replace the heat sink?) or not.
One thing I hve noticed is that the fan doesn't seem to come on very much at the moment.
I've just installed core duo temp and the average temp i about 50 deg C - which is much lower than some of the 80 temps i've been seeing.
Please note that when it's been crashing i've just been doing simple web surfing - it's never crashed during the month i've been playing WoW on it, e under heavy load!

P*ed off MacBook owners (especially ones they've
just culled from Windows) are going to remember this
and are already getting pretty steamed.
Yep, that pretty much describes my situation. My Macbook is my first Apple product ever, and after a pretty good honeymoon with the MacBook, the random shutdowns have started happening regularly. Actually, they aren't so random anymore; they happen every time I turn the MacBook on from a cold state. When the temperature gets up to a certain point, poof, the power goes out. Holding in the power button usually allows it to come back up again, but not always. If I can get it to stay up long enough, it seems to warm up enough to allow it to stay up indefinitely. Even if I put it to sleep for a few minutes, it will still work fine since it is still warm inside. When it gets cold, the problem cycle starts all over again.
Being a computer hardware engineer myself, I can understand design flaws in early revisions of a product. What has worried me is all the horror stories from MacBook customers about how Apple has been treating the problem with random clueless solutions and how they have been treating customers. I have been painfully living with the shutdown problem waiting to see some positive stories from customers. I don't want to waste my time dealing with Apple until I feel that they really understand the problem and know how to fix it in a reasonable amount of time.
Meanwhile, I use my 5 year old non-Apple laptop which has been quite reliable and has never randomly shut down on me. I avoid doing anything important on the MacBook since it is so unreliable. I'll contact Apple when there are some indications from customers that Apple has truely solved the problem. I guess in a month or so I'll know whether I'll ever do business with Apple again.

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    It seems that I can often make it restart or throw up the power button message by just lifting up the front of the computer, as you would if you were turning it around or something. This leads me to believe it's a hardware fault... Looking under the battery compartment the two outside screws that are on the battery connection side were loose and nearly falling out so I tightened those back up, still the problem persists.
    After the last restart message I copied this error report, I have no idea what to look for, just wondering if anyone can see anything helpful?
    panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A4A55): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 13=general protection), registers:
    CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00270000, CR3: 0x00e08000, CR4: 0x000006e0
    EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00025fde, ECX: 0x02fa4d90, EDX: 0x24188000
    CR2: 0x02f67af8, EBP: 0x13f7bfc8, ESI: 0xfc52147b, EDI: 0x0000009c
    EFL: 0x00010046, EIP: 0x00101a00, CS: 0x00000004, DS: 0xb018000c
    Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
    0x2f67968 : 0x128d08 (0x3cc0a4 0x2f6798c 0x131de5 0x0)
    0x2f679a8 : 0x1a4a55 (0x3d24b8 0x1 0xd 0x3d1cc8)
    0x2f67ab8 : 0x19aeb4 (0x2f67ac4 0xe 0xffe10048 0xc)
    0x13f7bfc8 : 0x19b28e (0x2f67b0c 0x1 0x19ad3b 0x2f97d90) No mapping exists for frame pointer
    Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffb58
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386
    Model: MacBook1,1, BootROM MB11.0061.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core Duo, 1.83 GHz, 1 GB
    Graphics: Intel GMA 950, GMA 950, Built-In, spdisplaysintegratedvram
    Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
    Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 512 MB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz
    AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x86), 1.1.9.3
    Bluetooth: Version 1.9.0f8, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
    Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
    Network Service: Parallels Host-Guest, Ethernet, en2
    Network Service: Parallels NAT, Ethernet, en3
    Serial ATA Device: WDC WD1200BEVS-60LAT0, 111.79 GB
    Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8221
    USB Device: Built-in iSight, Micron, Up to 480 Mb/sec, 500 mA
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, Apple, Inc., Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
    USB Device: IR Receiver, Apple Computer, Inc., Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
    USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
    I have tried a PMU reset, PRAM reset and whatever it is that happens when you hold the power button when you turn it on to make it beeeeeeep... The issue happens with or without the power cable attached.
    Unless anyone can suggest anything here I'll be taking it to the repair centre...
    Thanks for reading!

    Ok, this is not an answer but it may help you a little: have you checked your logs? It may be an indication of what has happened there. If you don't know the drill: go to console under applications/utilities, select logs, and go there to /library/logs/panic.log. Some information may appear there, for instance if there is some consistent cause like one of your processors, some specific fault.
    Not much, I know, but at least you may glean something out of it.

  • Random shutdowns/screen off on Mavericks

    I've been getting random shutdowns on my MBA 2013. It almost always happens when I've closed the lid to put it to sleep. After that when I open it the screen always stays black and nothing happens. I have to press down on the power button for a while to get it to reboot.
    I've noticed it happening since I upgraded to Mavericks. I thought it might be a problem because I just updated so I did a clean install last week but it's continued to happen.
    Any ideas what this could be due to?
    I have a log from a shutdown I had last night. If anyone could help me out that would be nice.
    [QUOTE]
    30/1/14 23:57:10.038     CalendarAgent[200]     [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.qu eue] [Adding [<CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation: 0x7ff7394d2460; Sequence: 0>] to failed operations.]
    30/1/14 23:57:10.000     kernel[0]     ARPT: 117352.987238: MacAuthEvent en0 Auth result for: 6a:12:f8:a9:b9:50 MAC AUTH succeeded
    30/1/14 23:57:10.000     kernel[0]     wlEvent: en0 en0 Link UP virtIf = 0
    30/1/14 23:57:10.000     kernel[0]     AirPort: Link Up on en0
    30/1/14 23:57:10.000     kernel[0]     en0: BSSID changed to 6a:12:f8:a9:b9:50
    30/1/14 23:57:12.299     configd[18]     network changed: DNS* Proxy
    30/1/14 23:57:12.300     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: [CNInfoNetworkActive:1655] en0: SSID 'freebox_chouquette' making interface primary (cache indicates network not captive)
    30/1/14 23:57:12.301     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: CNPluginHandler en0: Evaluating
    30/1/14 23:57:12.303     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: en0: Not probing 'freebox_chouquette' (cache indicates not captive)
    30/1/14 23:57:12.303     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: CNPluginHandler en0: Authenticated
    30/1/14 23:57:12.307     configd[18]     network changed: v4(en0!:192.168.0.10) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB
    30/1/14 23:57:13.498     apsd[183]     Unrecognized leaf certificate
    30/1/14 23:57:14.000     kernel[0]     AppleCamIn::handleWakeEvent_gated
    30/1/14 23:57:14.000     kernel[0]     AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en0
    30/1/14 23:57:14.000     kernel[0]     flow_divert_kctl_disconnect (0): disconnecting group 1
    30/1/14 23:57:14.000     kernel[0]     AppleCamIn::handleWakeEvent_gated
    30/1/14 23:57:14.672     ntpd[43]     SYNC state ignoring +0.636547 s
    30/1/14 23:57:14.987     airportd[86]     _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “freebox_chouquette”. Bailing on auto-join.
    30/1/14 23:57:15.761     configd[18]     network changed: v4(en0:192.168.0.10) v6(en0+:2a01:e35:1392:2910:60f3:d832:197c:abfa) DNS! Proxy SMB
    30/1/14 23:57:17.197     configd[18]     network changed: v4(en0:192.168.0.10) v6(en0!:2a01:e35:1392:2910:bae8:56ff:fe1b:efdc) DNS Proxy SMB
    30/1/14 23:57:19.193     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.197     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.199     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.201     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.204     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.205     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.205     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.207     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.207     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    30/1/14 23:57:20.608     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:20.763     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    30/1/14 23:59:15.000     kernel[0]     Network delay is not specified! Defaulting to 0x384
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    31/1/14 00:00:11.000     kernel[0]     AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
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    [/QUOTE]

    I've been getting random shutdowns on my MBA 2013. It almost always happens when I've closed the lid to put it to sleep. After that when I open it the screen always stays black and nothing happens. I have to press down on the power button for a while to get it to reboot.
    I've noticed it happening since I upgraded to Mavericks. I thought it might be a problem because I just updated so I did a clean install last week but it's continued to happen.
    Any ideas what this could be due to?
    I have a log from a shutdown I had last night. If anyone could help me out that would be nice.
    [QUOTE]
    30/1/14 23:57:10.038     CalendarAgent[200]     [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.qu eue] [Adding [<CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation: 0x7ff7394d2460; Sequence: 0>] to failed operations.]
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    30/1/14 23:57:12.301     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: CNPluginHandler en0: Evaluating
    30/1/14 23:57:12.303     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: en0: Not probing 'freebox_chouquette' (cache indicates not captive)
    30/1/14 23:57:12.303     UserEventAgent[11]     Captive: CNPluginHandler en0: Authenticated
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    30/1/14 23:57:19.197     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    30/1/14 23:57:19.204     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.205     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.205     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.207     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:19.207     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    30/1/14 23:57:20.424     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:20.608     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:20.763     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
    30/1/14 23:57:20.792     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    30/1/14 23:57:21.263     com.apple.mtmd[62]     Failed to get the path for fd 5 (Invalid argument)
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    31/1/14 00:00:07.000     bootlog[0]     BOOT_TIME 1391122807 0
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    ASL Module "com.apple.appstore" claims selected messages.
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