MacBook Pro Trouble

I own a 1.83 Ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro which I purchased last year in March. Recently (Past Month or 2) when I shut my laptop it doesnt go to sleep like it should. This happens about 60% of the time. This has caused lots of trouble, mostly when I put my computer to sleep and wake up the next morning to find the fans running at full power. I havent had that much trouble with this computer, besides a battery replacement and MagSafe replacement. I have a small whine but it doesn't bother me much. I should probably mention that sometimes when it does manage to go to sleep, when I try to wake it up, the computer doesnt respond and it refuses to wake up. The only way to fix that is to restart it and then when I boot back up it gives me a "Mac OS quit unexpectedly" message. (That happened about 5 times on Saturday)

Assuming there's no mechanical problem it sounds like system corruption.
First, boot from the OS X Installer Disc One that came with the computer. After the chime press and hold down the "D" key until the diagnostics screen appears. Run the extended tests. This will determine if there's a hardware problem.
If there's no hardware problem then do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Then select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If this doesn't straighten things out then it's probably time to reinstall OS X. Assuming the hard drive has been verified as OK in the previous exercise, you can reinstall OS X using the Archive and Install option which doesn't require erasing the hard drive. However, if there were any disk errors that could not be repaired, then your only option is to re-format the hard drive and then reinstall OS X.

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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3964
http://web.archive.org/web/20140711222006/http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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Ye I wish
In Europe (at least the Netherlands) we know DOA as well. But as stated before I have to run a hardware diagnostics for them first. To see if it's the notebook or the disk. I cant actually take it back since I bought it online and we have no Apple stores in the Netherlands, only Premium resellers.
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Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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Hello,
I'm having some trouble with my Macbook Pro 10.6.8. It was working very fine until last week. I've bought it speakers (for Windows, though the seller said it'd work fine for Mac too). After a few days, my Macbook started to crash a lot, freeze, and have troubles when turning on and turning off. So I've stopped using the speakers, the issue still happens. I suppose my Macbook is having those issues because of bad quality speakers. Every time I turned the computer off, I could hear an odd sound coming from the speakers.
Issues:
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- It freezes too. The same above. At times it just freezes, others, the screen goes odd! It goes messed up with the image itself, colours, stripes, it blinks... and I'm also unable to use apps such as games, skype, etc. I was able to use them few days ago.
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- To close apps, the "send report" window now appears more often either.
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- I didn't try to reinstall, because I can't find the CD installer (if I have it). But I'm sure it wouldn't work either.
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Trouble Trouble Trouble - my frustrations with Apple:
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Apple?
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Giving me 9 beeps at start-up on a black screen in the morse code s.o.s. 3x short, 3x long, 3x short)
Sounds like bad RAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2341?viewlocale=en_US
Or bad power.
Have you attempted to change the power supply or power source? If it isn't plugged into a surge protector, you may have issues with your house power that create problems for multiple computers.
Also, be sure you aren't damaging the power cable unintentially*:
http://www.macmaps.com/frayguide.html
This is a user to user board.
Call Apple directly at:
(31) 0900 7777 703
And let them know your repeated issues. They could give you a replacement machine, but also ask for a replacement power brick to at least test the theory the power brick may be damaged.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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2. I plan to add memory.
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If I install a new hard drive, will the transferred-back stuff still exhibit the same problems?
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Tonight does not have as many messages containing "error"s & "cannot find"s as usual.
See y'all in the morning.
Txgrandmater

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I have been having these same problems. Currently, playing YouTube videos in HD, is not viewable, so I have to watch videos in 240p (gross). My thought is that YouTube has shut down some of the servers in order to push some kind of update. My advice, just wait out the storm and see what happens over the next few days. If the issue is still not fixed, I would suggest contacting Google. In the meantime, you could try and reinstall Flash Player, or change browsers, but from my experience, none of that worked.
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17" Macbook Pro + PPT + Classroom Projector Trouble

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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201177
- Matt M.

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I recently fixed my Macbook Pro and updated the software to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I am having trouble syncing my iPhone with iOS 7.0.6 to my iTunes which is 11.1.5. It gets stuck on step 4 of 4 "Waiting for changes to apply." I've reset sync services and done a lot of research about what I can do to fix the problem to no avail. I would appreciate any help availible.
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Im having trouble getting my macbook pro to boot up after a fail safe boot, im getting as far as the grey screen with the apple loggo. so im trying to run a disk repair but is saying the disk is locked, how do i unlock disk??

Im having trouble getting my macbook pro to boot up after a fail safe boot, im getting as far as the grey screen with the apple loggo. so im trying to run a disk repair but is saying the disk is locked, how do i unlock disk??

Some clarification may help.
You say you cannot boot normally. It shows a gray screen with the Apple logo.
Did you say it will boot successfully in Safe Mode (boot, then hold down the Shift key)?
How did you boot the machine to run Disk Utility? (Which keyboard combinations)?

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