Macbook keeps shutting down on it's own

my macbook pro shut down on it's own yesterday and to turn it back on i had to press and hold on the on button for at least a few minutes. it keeps happening about every 15 minutes and then it stopped.

Reset your SMC which can sometimes fix unexpected shutdowns.

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  • Why does my 15' macbook keep shutting down?

    I never had this problem till recently. My macbook keeps shutting down around the 60% mark on the battery indicator.
    I have requested for the new battery, as my battery is eligible. I'm hoping this will fix the problem.
    Also, the light on the mag-safe power cord does not stay on. If I unplug it and then plug it back in then the light will pop on.
    Has anyone encountered this?
    Could it be the 10.4.8 update?

    Try resetting the PMU (Power Management Utility)
    1. If the computer is on, turn it off.
    2. Disconnect the AC Adapter and remove the computer's battery.
    3. Press and hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then release the button.
    4. Reconnect the battery and AC Adapter.
    5. Press the Power button to restart the computer.
    Hope this works
    Brian

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    My iPhone 4s keeps randomly shutting down. It usually does this after it's been sitting in sleep mode for a few minutes. Pressing the home button or attempting a hard reset does not turn the phone back on. It seems to turn on on it's own. It has done this since I got it and seems to be doing it more frequently. I've only had the phone for about 2 months.

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    This isn't a Home Sharing problem, you will get better answers posting in the iPhone community.
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone/iphone_hardware
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone/using_iphone

  • My MacBook keeps shutting down, then restarting, endlessly

    Hello,
    Posting from my phone. :(
    Have reviewed all related questions but nothing sends to help this situation.
    For no apparent reason, my Mac shuts down and attempts to restart. This happens whether any programs are running or not, and regardless of whether I am even touching the computer. It has happened when I have been working, or in the other room. When it attempts to restart and fails, I have to hold down the power button, wait, then turn it ok again.  The restarts were only every few days but frequency had increased now to every few minutes!
    What can I do, and what could be the problem? I am out of warranty.
    Context is relevant: two months ago my old battery died, and the fan was ticking loudly and always on. Brought her to the Apple geniuses at the local store. They were to take my laptop for an hour to replace the fan and battery. When I came back in an hour, my hard drive, which I had installed myself a year ago but had had no problems till then, had inexplicably failed. They could not restart. I went home to pick up my backup drive. They restored my computer there in the store, and put in a new hard drive, gratis, along with the new fan, which I paid for. Something about their anxious behavior and how long all this took suggested something else went wrong, but I could not ascertain what, exactly.
    When I got home, everything seemed ok till my computer randomly shut down and restarted twice. This picked up in frequency over the past two months, and you know the rest of the story, except this:
    When I opened up my Mac, under the battery, my warranty sticker had been partially peeled off presumably by a Genius, and was sticking up. This was a month ago.  Yesterday I took out the hard drive and held a flashlight to the inside. There were little bits of glue-balls rolling around, which I picked out, and a random orange wire sticking up. One of the little rubber tracks that support the drive is missing, but this has been the case for a year, with no problem. The glue-balls and the wire, however, were new additions.
    I am a student trying to graduate, pending on whether I can finish typing my final papers....
    HELP?!
    Thank you!

    Try Apple Hardware Test - you need your original system installation DVD. Insert the DVD, and reboot while holding the D key.
    If it is randomly rebooting due to a hardware fault, AHT might not even run. With all the detritus inside your MacBook that you describe, anything is possible.
    Using Apple Hardware Test

  • My MacBook keeps shutting down

    I bought my MacBook in August so it is very new. Recently it has started to shut down after about 5-10 minutes of use. I read on the main page about an update but it is for older operating systems and tells me that my computer doesn't need the update. The problem, however, did start occurring since I moved to Poland from North America. I'm not sure why that would be a problem but I don't know much about computers. I am a graduate student and can't have my computer shutting down whenever it feels like it. Which is why I bought a Mac in the first place. If someone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it!

    Welcome to Apple Discussions!
    Check if your machine qualifies for this:
    http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
    If not, check my article on heat:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=716829&tstart=0
    Otherwise call AppleCare. You have free AppleCare for the first 90 days, and a chance to extend your coverage to 3 years from date of computer's purchase by buying AppleCare within the first year.

  • Macbook keeps shutting down randomly

    I've had my Macbook for about 9 months with no problems but it has suddenly started to shut down randomly. I have looked at lots of support advice on this site but nothing has worked. I have the latest firmware and battery update patches. Following advice on this forum, I thought it was down to recently installed widgets that might me using too much CPU so I binned them to no avail. It also isn't the temperature, when it last died that was at 49c, so well below danger level! From what I can ascertain, it isn't kernal panic either, and no panic logs have been stored. I haven't had any error messages. I have looked at the console and system logs, but they don't mean much to me.
    Here's what happens:
    Completely randomly, regardless of what applications I have open or with no external decives attached, my mac switches off, or almost. The start up "ching" sounds, then the screen flickers on and off while the light at the front does the same, it also makes the start-up sound a few times as if it's trying to restart. It doesn't close down completely but won't come back up again. When it first started doing this, I could force it to shut down then reboot it, but just now the only way I could get it to do this was to remove all power: take out the battery and remove the power-in cable then replace the cable and reboot. It still does this with the battery removed completely, so it's not the battery causing this. I've also tried holding down the on/off button until it makes that long tone sound just to see if it would start up before removing all power, but it didn't!
    Help! I've tried everything I can think of and the apple store is closed in the UK!

    Ummm, nope. All due respects, this problem cropped up suddenly, at about the same time, for multiple users, on different laptop types. Probability of all this happening at once due to simultaneous hardware failures is much lower than if it was caused by say a software update not playing well with something (a piece of 3rd party software, etc). I'm having the same exact problem, I have put a new battery in, same thing happens.
    This is similar to 3 or so years ago when widgets were first introduced, laptop battey lifes dropped to about 1/3 and the machines heated up. General consensus was it must be hardware, well no it was software, and a software fix took care of it. I'm hoping someone figures this out soon...
    Thanks

  • My MacBook Keeps shutting down without warning

    Every since downloading Mavericks I have been having problems with my MacBook Pro. The worst thing is that the computer randomly shuts down without warning. Today this has happended about a dozen or more times. Every time it generates a report that is sent to Apple. I have coppied the first few lines of the report and I have pasted it below, I can post up the full report if need be: if anyone can help that would be great!
    Anonymous UUID: 4F286140-3E8B-EF8D-E423-43178335AC4F
    Wed Feb 26 16:22:55 2014
    panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f8d6befac): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 5 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80aaa07000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P2/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.12/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
    Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff8087dc2ea0 : 0xffffff800b222f69
    0xffffff8087dc2f20 : 0xffffff7f8d6befac
    0xffffff8087dc2ff0 : 0xffffff7f8bcba53d
    0xffffff8087dc30b0 : 0xffffff7f8bd86d9e
    0xffffff8087dc30f0 : 0xffffff7f8bd86dfc
    0xffffff8087dc3160 : 0xffffff7f8c00b5be
    0xffffff8087dc3290 : 0xffffff7f8bdaad41
    0xffffff8087dc32b0 : 0xffffff7f8bcc108d
    0xffffff8087dc3360 : 0xffffff7f8bcbebae
    0xffffff8087dc3560 : 0xffffff7f8bcc04d7
    0xffffff8087dc3630 : 0xffffff7f8cceb5bf
    0xffffff8087dc3700 : 0xffffff7f8cd15993
    0xffffff8087dc3780 : 0xffffff7f8ccfdcc0
    0xffffff8087dc37e0 : 0xffffff7f8ccfe5ba
    0xffffff8087dc3830 : 0xffffff7f8ccfe934
    0xffffff8087dc38a0 : 0xffffff7f8ccff1a8
    0xffffff8087dc38e0 : 0xffffff7f8cccc1ca
    0xffffff8087dc3a60 : 0xffffff7f8ccfbb20
    0xffffff8087dc3b20 : 0xffffff7f8cccacb9
    0xffffff8087dc3b70 : 0xffffff800b6cc226
    0xffffff8087dc3b90 : 0xffffff800b6cd821
    0xffffff8087dc3bf0 : 0xffffff800b6cb28f
    0xffffff8087dc3d40 : 0xffffff800b2b6008
    0xffffff8087dc3e50 : 0xffffff800b226bb1
    0xffffff8087dc3e80 : 0xffffff800b2139b5
    0xffffff8087dc3ef0 : 0xffffff800b21e003
    0xffffff8087dc3f70 : 0xffffff800b2c921d
    0xffffff8087dc3fb0 : 0xffffff800b2f3e26
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
    com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.4.12)[A4934A66-0E30-36E9-984A-650481102449]@ 0xffffff7f8d6b1000->0xffffff7f8d6c3fff
    dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl(3.4.12)[661E3C87-5B97-3272-88FF-B9BA9B6E2 4ED]@0xffffff7f8d6a9000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[045D5D6F-AD1E-36DB-A249-A346E2B48E54]@0xfffff f7f8bb24000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f8b8ba000
      dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f8bc16000

    Hi Mende1,
    thanks very much for the help; the problem only started after I upgraded to Mavericks and started immediately after that. I have seen that there are other problems with my GPU particularly the icons on my desktop decaying. My computer is a mid 2010 CPU, it backs up automatically to our AirPort
    In any case here is the full error message:
    Anonymous UUID: 4F286140-3E8B-EF8D-E423-43178335AC4F
    Wed Feb 26 16:22:55 2014
    panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f8d6befac): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 5 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80aaa07000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P2/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.12/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
    Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
    0xffffff8087dc2ea0 : 0xffffff800b222f69
    0xffffff8087dc2f20 : 0xffffff7f8d6befac
    0xffffff8087dc2ff0 : 0xffffff7f8bcba53d
    0xffffff8087dc30b0 : 0xffffff7f8bd86d9e
    0xffffff8087dc30f0 : 0xffffff7f8bd86dfc
    0xffffff8087dc3160 : 0xffffff7f8c00b5be
    0xffffff8087dc3290 : 0xffffff7f8bdaad41
    0xffffff8087dc32b0 : 0xffffff7f8bcc108d
    0xffffff8087dc3360 : 0xffffff7f8bcbebae
    0xffffff8087dc3560 : 0xffffff7f8bcc04d7
    0xffffff8087dc3630 : 0xffffff7f8cceb5bf
    0xffffff8087dc3700 : 0xffffff7f8cd15993
    0xffffff8087dc3780 : 0xffffff7f8ccfdcc0
    0xffffff8087dc37e0 : 0xffffff7f8ccfe5ba
    0xffffff8087dc3830 : 0xffffff7f8ccfe934
    0xffffff8087dc38a0 : 0xffffff7f8ccff1a8
    0xffffff8087dc38e0 : 0xffffff7f8cccc1ca
    0xffffff8087dc3a60 : 0xffffff7f8ccfbb20
    0xffffff8087dc3b20 : 0xffffff7f8cccacb9
    0xffffff8087dc3b70 : 0xffffff800b6cc226
    0xffffff8087dc3b90 : 0xffffff800b6cd821
    0xffffff8087dc3bf0 : 0xffffff800b6cb28f
    0xffffff8087dc3d40 : 0xffffff800b2b6008
    0xffffff8087dc3e50 : 0xffffff800b226bb1
    0xffffff8087dc3e80 : 0xffffff800b2139b5
    0xffffff8087dc3ef0 : 0xffffff800b21e003
    0xffffff8087dc3f70 : 0xffffff800b2c921d
    0xffffff8087dc3fb0 : 0xffffff800b2f3e26
          Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
    com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.4.12)[A4934A66-0E30-36E9-984A-650481102449]@ 0xffffff7f8d6b1000->0xffffff7f8d6c3fff
    dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl(3.4.12)[661E3C87-5B97-3272-88FF-B9BA9B6E2 4ED]@0xffffff7f8d6a9000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[045D5D6F-AD1E-36DB-A249-A346E2B48E54]@0xfffff f7f8bb24000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f8b8ba000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f8bc16000
    dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert(1.0.4)[E04639C5-D734-3AB3-A682-FE66694C66 53]@0xffffff7f8d6ac000
    com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f8bc69000->0xffffff7f8bed8fff
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f8b8ba000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.6)[86BA68C6-18DD-30A1-ABF6-54597AD6C277]@0xff ffff7f8bc59000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f8bc16000
    com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDANV50HalTesla(8.1.8)[3666E0FC-87C7-3329-BD8C-2F1ADE D100A4]@0xffffff7f8bee3000->0xffffff7f8c18ffff
    dependency: com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f8bc69000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f8b8ba000
    com.apple.GeForceTesla(8.1.8)[7DAF283F-6FD3-3783-B3CC-D23964F1B9B8]@0xffffff7f8 ccb9000->0xffffff7f8cd83fff
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f8b8ba000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.6)[86BA68C6-18DD-30A1-ABF6-54597AD6C277]@0xff ffff7f8bc59000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f8bc16000
    dependency: com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f8bc69000
    BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
    Mac OS version:
    13B42
    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
    Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
    Kernel slide:     0x000000000b000000
    Kernel text base: 0xffffff800b200000
    System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 5409208322931
    last loaded kext at 1260272477635: com.apple.filesystems.afpfs            11.0 (addr 0xffffff7f8d82b000, size 348160)
    last unloaded kext at 341345478490: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs            1.9 (addr 0xffffff7f8d7c1000, size 57344)
    loaded kexts:
    com.apple.filesystems.afpfs            11.0
    com.apple.nke.asp-tcp            8.0.0
    com.apple.filesystems.smbfs            2.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC            1.60
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor            1.9.5d0
    com.apple.driver.AGPM            100.14.11
    com.apple.filesystems.autofs            3.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager            4.2.0f6
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver            124
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA            2.5.3fc1
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU            2.0.4d1
    com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver            2.5.3fc1
    com.apple.GeForceTesla            8.1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient            3.5.13
    com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl            3.4.12
    com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl            1.1.12
    com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport            4.2.0f6
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC            1.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC            1.7.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics            8.1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB            8.1.8
    com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet            1.0.0d1
    com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X            7.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess            1
    com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin            1.0.0
    com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor            3.0.4d1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons            240.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard            240.2
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader            3.3.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleIRController            325.7
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless            1.0.0d1
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib            1.0.0d1
    com.apple.BootCache            35
    com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient            3.6.0
    com.apple.driver.XsanFilter            404
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage            2.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub            650.4.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI            4.9.9
    com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331            700.20.22
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort            2.9.5
    com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet            3.6.9b9
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI            650.4.1
    com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager            161.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons            2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC            2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET            1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS            2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC            2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC            1.7
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient            216.0.0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall            153
    com.apple.security.quarantine            3
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement            216.0.0
    com.apple.security.SecureRemotePassword            1.0
    com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl            3.4.12
    com.apple.kext.triggers            1.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily            10.0.7
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib            2.5.3fc1
    com.apple.vecLib.kext            1.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily            1.9.4fc11
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib            1.14
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP            2.2.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController            2.5.3fc1
    com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily            2.5.3fc1
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI            1.0.12d1
    com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDANV50HalTesla            8.1.8
    com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla            8.1.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl            3.4.12
    com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert            1.0.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController            1.0.11d1
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport            4.2.0f6
    com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport            2.3.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface            91
    com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily            2.3.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily            4.2.0f6
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy            1.0.0
    com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily            5.5.1d27
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMC            3.1.6d1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch            240.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice            3.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass            3.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver            650.4.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub            650.4.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite            650.4.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice            3.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily            1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily            1.7.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily            1.7.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI            2.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily            3.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily            4.5.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient            650.4.4
    com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family            600.34
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily            2.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController            1.0.3b3
    com.apple.driver.mDNSOffloadUserClient            1.0.1b4
    com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily            3.2
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily            650.4.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM            2.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime            2.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily            2.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily            1.1
    com.apple.security.sandbox            278.10
    com.apple.kext.AppleMatch            1.0.0d1
    com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet            7
    com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore            2
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages            371.1
    com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily            1.9
    com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily            21
    com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore            28.30
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform            2.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily            2.8
    com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily            1.4
    com.apple.kec.pthread            1
    com.apple.kec.corecrypto            1.0

  • Macbook keeps shutting down after replacing the screen!

    Hi,
    The screen of my four year old Macbook cracked the other day and, after being quoted around £500 from Apple to replace it, I decided it was pointless seeing as though the machine cost £700 nearly four years ago.
    A friend of mine ordered a screen and replaced it for me. I've just turned it on for the first time an hour ago and the screen and everything else works, but for whatever reason the machine just turns itself every now and then. Does anyone have any idea why?
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    Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47372020
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    USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, apple_vendor_id, 0x8403, 0xfa130000 / 5
    USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0236, 0xfa120000 / 4
    USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 3
    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8218, 0xfa113000 / 8
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    USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd120000 / 4
    USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8507, 0xfd110000 / 3
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