Anyone own a MackBook WITHOUT the random turn off problem ???
I'm very disappointed that after a few weeks my Mackbook exhibit the power off problem that MANY of you have encountered.
It's so odd to me that nobody at Apple seem to acknowledge there's a problem.
Anyways, my dealer is nice enough to take it back or give me e new one...but after reading through 600 odd posts, it's seems that even a logic board swap won't even garanteed a working machine....so, anyone out there own a WORKING Mackbook ???
Me!!! No problems at all(knocking wood!).
After two weeks with mackbook, it stopped working-completely dead.The local retailer replaced logic board, and for 3 weeks now, everything is normal.
For the past week, i am pushing the machine to its limits by being a member of @Seti.....Macbook is searching for aliens(!!), 24 hours,every day for the past week, and no problems so far.
Serial: 4H618....
New logic board serial: SystemSeumb
Greetings from Greece
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Well the original thread has been locked for some reason, probably causing too much stress on the servers.
Carry on posting your findings about the random turning off problem here, we need a solution!I had the same problem on a week 24 MacBook, got it picked up by TNT, and a new MacBook should be on its way.
::MY CRASHBOOK EXPERIENCES AND CONSIDERATIONS::
I was never able to reproduce the shutoffs in "safe mode". And with the battery detached it seemed almost stable: I only had shutoffs when transferring backups to a firewire hdd. Also is seemed OS independent: happened in OS X, and when running hardware test from DVD or in Ubuntu from CD.
When I think about it, the shutoffs started the same day og the day after I compiled some programs with darwinports (dia, gnumeric, nedit and dependencies). I also ran some sequence alignment (mafft). They are all heavy tasks. Could this have triggered it? And could it be that ALL MacBooks will start randomly shutting off eventually once you have done some (heavy) compiling on them. I sure hope no
t!
::TESTING IF A NEW MACBOOK SUFFERS FROM THE PROBLEM?::
It seems that in most cases (all?) this started happening after a week or more. But the question is, could the fault have been discovered the first day by putting it through some intensive tests? Would "yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null" reveal it right away? Or is there another sure test?
I consider it important to be able to quickly determine whether a brand new MacBook has the problems as it can be catastrophic starting to rely on the machine if ends up dead after a few weeks (14 days+).
::SOMEONE, PLEASE CREATE A CRASHBOOK WIKI::
This thread is getting very long and takes forever to load, so it would be really useful if someone could create a wiki or something summing up the important points and discoveries. This site "http://racr.free.fr" (already mentioned by someone else) seems like a good idea, but unfortunately it has not been updated since I first discovered it. So a wiki not depending on only one persons time and effort would be nice. Anyone up for the challenge of starting it?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1476
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If you see the image below, charge the iPhone or iPod touch with USB power adapter for at least 15 minutes.
You should see this image when iPhone or iPod touch begins to charge:
If the screen still displays the low-battery icon, try turning the iPhone or iPod touch off and then on again.
If the issue persists, follow these troubleshooting steps.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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This is going to solve your problem. I worked for me.
Hope this help.FWIW, I think the ThinkVantage software just sucks. On my X200 the wifi would drop constantly, every 3 to 5 minutes. Driver upgrade, software upgrade, settings etc didnt change anything. I wiped the entire hard drive and installed linux, and I haven't seen a drop since. Maybe try just using the windows wifi to manage your connections. It could also be related to the power management dropping the wifi, which would also be the ThinkVantage.
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