I'd like to know if anyone's had this happen...

recently had a whack of sites open in Safari. Yeah, trying to download the 'entire **** content' of the internet (if you where wondering). But the crazy thing was that my MBP completely stopped. Shut down, no lights, not even on the charger... whacky strange. Power button was unresponsive. The MBP was basically DOA. Freaked out and left a message for my vendor, re. absolute breakdown of this heretofore behemoth. In the meantime, in my panic, removed and re-inserted (yeah, funny giggles here) the battery, and everything restarted and did it's thing. MBP back to life, no errors, no permissions problems, et. al. BUT, big question here.... has anyone ever had their computer completely stop, with no signs of life, and did you figure out why, or how? And don't Digg this, I may want a girlfriend someday...

Hi jczubach;
My MBP did the old shutdown trick after I had it for a bit over one week. This was happening about every couple of hours. I took it into the Apple store and they checked it out. Of course it would not do it for them but they diligently rummaged through the log file and told me I would have to leave it overnight. The next day when I came back they told me that they replaced the motherboard. Hasn't done it since.
Allan

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