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Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I live a 5 hour drive to my closest Apple store, so making a "Genius" appointment is not possible at this time. I have tried re-seating my memory cards, I have also tried using the original memory cards that I replaced in favor of more memory. I got the 3 beeps and 5 second pause 3 beeps indicating that the RAM doesn not pass integrity check. Am I still at the "Genius" appointment? Thanks for your help.

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My Macbook Pro has had this problem since a few months after I purchased it. While working or playing the laptop will randomly go into what seems like sleep mode. The screen turns off, I hear the hard drive stop and then a couple seconds later it starts back up on its own. Any Internet connection I had disconnects, but other than that it starts up as normal.
The problem comes and goes and doesn't seem to be consistent with anything that I'm aware of. Sometimes it happens once, then doesn't happen for days. Often it will happen several times in a row over the course of an hour.
I've called support and brought the laptop to the genius bar where they ran several tests, but were unable to figure anything out. Research online has shown similar issues with other users, but no solutions. The laptop is not stacked on anything magnetic, the issue occurs when running hot or cold and whether I'm on battery power or plugged in.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If this can't be resolved is it something I can bring to apple and get a replacement under my year warranty?
Specs are below:
Refurbished 17" Macbook Pro
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
*Console Log from one pretty bad incident today:*
Aug 13 12:55:52 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro coconutBattery[1857]: * NSTimer ignoring exception '* -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (2) beyond bounds (1)' that raised during firing of timer with target 0x405e00 and selector 'batteryDataThreadTimer:'
Aug 13 12:58:10: --- last message repeated 8 times ---
Aug 13 12:58:32 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Aug 13 12:58:34 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 12:58:37 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:8/13/2010 12:58:37.034 PM - Waketime:8/13/2010 12:58:35.400 PM = Deltatime:1.633561075
Aug 13 12:58:39 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Sleep: Success - AC 96 - Clamshell Sleep
Aug 13 12:58:39 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC 96 - EC LID0
Aug 13 12:58:39 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Aug 13 12:58:40 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 12:58:58 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: time reset +0.908918 s
Aug 13 12:59:08 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: no spins reported for this wake
Aug 13 13:00:48 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Aug 13 13:00:50 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 13:00:53 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:8/13/2010 1:00:53.031 PM - Waketime:8/13/2010 1:00:51.420 PM = Deltatime:1.611223936
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Aug 13 13:00:53 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: PMConnection AirPort configd plug-in com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 128 ms
Aug 13 13:00:53 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: PMConnection IPConfiguration com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 130 ms
Aug 13 13:00:55 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Sleep: Success - AC 97 - Clamshell Sleep
Aug 13 13:00:55 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC 97 - EC LID0
Aug 13 13:00:55 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Aug 13 13:00:56 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 13:01:07 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: time reset +0.836731 s
Aug 13 13:01:24 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: no spins reported for this wake
Aug 13 13:04:59 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Aug 13 13:05:02 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 13:05:05 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:8/13/2010 1:05:05.026 PM - Waketime:8/13/2010 1:05:03.410 PM = Deltatime:1.616448998
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Aug 13 13:05:07 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC 98 - EC LID0
Aug 13 13:05:07 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Aug 13 13:05:08 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 13:05:10 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: bind() fd 26, family 30, port 123, scope 5, addr fe80::223:6cff:fe96:9643, in6is_addrmulticast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested address
Aug 13 13:05:10 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: unable to create socket on en1 (51) for fe80::223:6cff:fe96:9643#123
Aug 13 13:05:17 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: time reset +0.413090 s
Aug 13 13:05:36 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: no spins reported for this wake
Aug 13 13:05:39 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Aug 13 13:05:39 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder[30]: DeregisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0223:6CFF:FE96:9643)
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Aug 13 13:05:44 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:8/13/2010 1:05:44.024 PM - Waketime:8/13/2010 1:05:42.410 PM = Deltatime:1.614192009
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Aug 13 13:05:46 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Aug 13 13:05:47 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Aug 13 13:05:47 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder[30]: RegisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (192.168.1.103)
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Aug 13 13:05:51 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder[30]: RegisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0223:6CFF:FE96:9643)
Aug 13 13:05:59 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: time reset +1.150003 s
Aug 13 13:06:04 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Aug 13 13:06:04 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder[30]: DeregisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0223:6CFF:FE96:9643)
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Aug 13 13:06:05 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: PMConnection IPConfiguration com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 225 ms
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Aug 13 13:06:11 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:8/13/2010 1:06:11.026 PM - Waketime:8/13/2010 1:06:09.410 PM = Deltatime:1.616049945
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Aug 13 13:06:13 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC 98 - EC LID0
Aug 13 13:06:13 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Aug 13 13:06:14 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro configd[13]: network configuration changed.
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Aug 13 13:06:18 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro mDNSResponder[30]: RegisterInterface: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:0223:6CFF:FE96:9643)
Aug 13 13:06:24 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro ntpd[18]: time reset -0.427840 s
Aug 13 13:06:41 Ben-Shepards-MacBook-Pro loginwindow[31]: no spins reported for this wake
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