Macbook Week 36

Hello,
I bought a Macbook in September. I was checking its serial number and it says it is from week 36.
I have read some websites talking about the random shutdowns... these sites say that macbooks up to week 38 may have that problem.
After installing update 10.4.8, but macbook shutdown, but it did not shutdown completely, I could hear the fan and the screen was on, but with a kind of 'gray' color or something. I just pressed the power button for a few seconds and it worked after that.
Is this a shutdown case or is it because of the new update?
I haven't had that problem since...
Thanks!

Hi,
If you have a shutdown, you'll know it. My week 32 MB just bit it last weekend. Went black entirely and shutdown, as the name of the syndrome implies.
The good news is the repair time in-house was one day. Apple is on top of this issue now, so even if you do suffer from RSS later you should have your machine back fairly quickly.

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You are correct from what I understand. The MBP's are the one's with the new MB's.
I had a week 26 MB with the whine. I think that all MB's have what is reffered to as the "whine" but not all user's are referring to the same thing when they say "whine."
I have a high pitched sound coming form the left of the keyboard. The same sound comes from the power adapter. It is not loud. It is almost nothing. Definitely nothing to worry about. Barely noticable espesially while running on battery.
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Hi I dont know if my macbook week 36 suffers from real RSD symptoms. basically my problem is that when i shut down the compr for more than 3 hours or so and then try booting up the system without the power adpater the comp keeps shutting down.
However if i plug in the adpater and then start it, its fine! This is the weirdest problem Ive ever faced and today after resetting the pmu and checking if the battery was swelled, I faced it again.
My macbook doesnt run hot and there is no noise too and I use it for hours. So do u think its the battery as the Mac center guy told me he'll replace the battery as Mac has recallled batteries for macbook.Is that true? I thought it was for G4
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It could very well be coincidental, and i shared your same concern about the battery being the possible culprit, so i did as the previous poster did and ran it with AC and battery removed but i got the same results. The battery recall hasnt affected the macbooks only the powerbooks, ibooks and as a safety precaution the macbook pros as well. some have been saying that its the sensor cable, others have been saying that its the heatsinks proximity to metal parts in the upper casing that cause the short circuiting in the macbook. right now it seems that apple is simply replacing the heatsink and possibly a connection cable in lieu of the whole logicboard/heatsink combo.
I got mine back from repairs almost 3 weeks ago, and recently ive been taxing the heck out of it running 4-6 hour full CPU loads while ripping DVD's web browsing and watching a previously ripped movie simultaneously. the macbook never got higher than 66-67C and even managed to cool down just a tad to 62C with the fan on full blast on a cool hard surface. its probably not the battery, and theyll probably just replace the heatsink and possibly the logicboard if they think its defective.
good luck.

MacBook hard disk just died

Guess what? After suffering from the worst case of RSS, which led to two logic board replacements, after one palm rest, keyboard and trackpad area replacement due to discoloring, after all that suffering and lost time, after suffering from the huge quantities of heat produced by the MacBook which letd to a crack in the 100% wooden desk I put it on, I now, yes me, get a question marked folder when I start my macBook. Aparently the hard disk just died!
I tried everything, there's no way any application from the MacOS Disc 1 becomes aware of the hard disk's existance now, it's just gone forever.
It really makes one think about the quality of the parts used to make the MacBook and recent Apple hardware.
I know I'll go next week to the Apple rep to ask for the disk replacement that will take some time to get here (and surely they will send me the same 60Gb when they do send it) and then reinstall the whole thing.
I just wonder what will come off next??
Best,
Pedro
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Yeah they will change it, but to my point again, what will come off then? and will it be on warranty when that happens? And what about my lost time, files, work, money, life?? —This is getting to my nerves the guys at the Apple shop are like: Hmm, here comes the MacBook guy again!?!?!
I didn't drop it, I treat it like it's my baby. It just died there sitting on the desk.
What kind of crappy hard drives are they putting in this machines, that last just seven months?
Is this the next RSS, behold the new HDDS (Hard Disk Dying Syndrome!)??
Best,
Pedro

Old MacBook Issue - RSD?

Greetings to All,
It’s been a few months since the debacle started over the RSD and all 40, and now 60 of the MacBooks at the college in southern California that I consult for are working fine since the illegal software was removed and the machines reloaded, properly, and the hardware all reseated. I also installed FreezeX on them so that no matter what was done to them, they would always go back to the way they were at the next reboot. The only way to save their files is on the AD networks Home Directories.
None of these machines ever gave us issues again, and none were ever sent in to Apple – I called them (Apple) and had several talks, but at the time there was no acknowledgement of a problem. I understand that some had MB/Heat Sinks replaced as well as some other stuff, but they never had to do that for us.
The school where I am actually employed, we have no MacBooks, so the only real exposure I have is at the Jr. College near Pomona – after I set up the server and the first lab. Since that time in September, they have had no issues.
They performed all the updates and after each successive one the machines had an overall performance increase. I have two of my own MacBooks, and I did the same, and with the same results. Mine are week 27&29, so they fall in the time frame. I never had any issues, and one of them is on most of the day, each day.
I did have an interesting experience with a person and their MacBook – Week 29 - where she insisted that she was having the RSD problem, but refused to send it in to Apple because of all the horror stories that she read about on this forum.
I took a look at it and found nothing wrong, but she would take it home/work and bring it back saying that she had RSD issues. This went on 5 or so times so I asked her to sit down and give me 15 minutes and to set it up and work as she usually did.
Well, lo and behold, she pops out this wireless mouse that I never had seen, inserts the receiver into a USB port and turns everything on. After about 5 minutes, the machine did its shutdown. This occurred several times.
I pulled the receiver out of the USB port, and sure enough the problem went away, and its never shutdown since.
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Some of the stuff that I read on these forums is very useful and helpful, but some of it is so far fetched, and impossible that it’s almost funny when you read about it.
I’ve used the Apple forums, and many others, and have gotten some excellent help, so I will always stay involved, but some of the stuff is like light reading and very entertaining. If I can help, I’ll jump in, but I rarely respond to idiocy as some of it is, like, way out there.
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Cheers.

I know 8 Core Duo MacBook owners. 4 of them,
including me, had RSD. All of us own stock MacBooks
without any 3rd party hardware or illegal software.
I'm thoroughly convinced that RSD is/was a
manufacturing problem which has now been "worked
around" through a firmware fix. My heat sink
replacement reduced my 10-15 shutdowns a day to
zero. Flawless computer for two months and now I've
installed the firmware update...still working great
Yes it's certainly true that there have been many
theories tossed around on these forums as to what
defect causes RSD. Your implication that illegal
software/3rd party hardware is the primary RSD
culprit, is merely one of these RSD theories.
As "entertaining" and "far-fetched" as you have found
other RSD theories, some readers will be equally
amused by your .
theory.
Greetings,
I didn't mean to imply that illeagal software or 3rd party stuff was the primary culprit in all this, I'm sure it wasn't. By illegal software, I was referring to faculty that installed things that they were not supposed to, like games, card making programs and software that wasn't part of th estandard school load. We fixed that with FreezeX.
If you look at the relatively few numbers that were affected, and they didn't range in a batch scenario because from what I read the week of manufacture was all over the planet.
I, myself, have never seen any of the symptoms described within these forums - it was always something else. I have worked with 60 - 70 of the MacBooks from widely varying weeks of production and we have been very satisfied with them. Sixty of them have gone through late summer school and almost an entire semester without a hitch, and they get used and abused.
I know that there are some machines with definite issues that Apple needs to take care of.
I find it a bit odd that the books are from so many different weeks of production, different life styles, different configurations, some with factory ram and some with whatever, and from different countries.
I'm glad Apple has found the problem and is taking care of it - I've had Apple computers since they first stated (PeeCees too) and I run with a huge Mac crowd from all over he world - like I said our overall satisfaction is high.
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2 - the sleep light pulses (I always check for this based on past experience)
3 - Within a 1/2 hour, I open the screen - still no power adapter attached.
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The only ways i have found able to bring the light back on without having to restart, is to either
1. Close the lid, sending the mac into sleep mode then reopen it and press any key, or
2. Keep clicking F1 until the brightness appears to be at its lowest and then press F2 to increase it to the desired brightness.
But this is painfully annoying, surely it must be some hidden setting in the OS to do with either the track pad or power management. Apple could so easily fix this if they released a specific update. Or have they already??? Please could someone shed light on the situation.
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An error occurred while publishing file "/Web/Sites/iWeb/Jim and Steph's Si

I'm guessing this is a common message most see when they try to publish their website. Reason I say this, is it is the only message I have recieved in the last week when trying to use this faulty software.
Here it is again if you missed it:
An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Jim and Steph's Site/Jim's Blog”.
I got this MacBook week ago yesterday. Totally excited to share pictures and blog information. Spent 99 dollars or close to it for a mac account to simply share this information on the web. The first four pages (all pictures), I published worked well. Then I updated to iWeb 1.1.1 and tried to publish with blogs and more pictures and it won't work. Now all that I published before does not even come up. I emailed support here on mac.com and got the generic reply that I have already read on this forum. I tired as many fixes as I could to no avail. Two questions:
1. Any ideas to fix this problem?
2. Can you get your money back?
Sorry this was so long.
Thanks everyone,
Jim B

Jim...
Try doing a "Publish All to .Mac" if nothing else works for you. And if I could make a recommendation, it probably wouldn't be a bad thing to simplify your site name (Jim and Steph's Site) and eliminate the apostrophes (also in Jim's Blog). A longer site URL with complexities such as punctuation and spaces and even capitalization can potentially wreak havoc on your site navigation and function. Simplifying your site and page names will at the very least lead to shorter and more recognizable URLs...and when you start to add more pages it will also make the navigation menu at the top of your pages look "cleaner". Think simple names, like "oursite" and "HeSays" or "SheSays"
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Hi, I have had a pretty much trouble free (i still have an annoying CPU whine that applestore says is just my young ears being sensitive. Im 20 not stupid!!)
macbook, week 35.
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It used to max out at 2.5 hours..
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Apple acknowledges discoloration as Manufacturing defect...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Acknowledges-MacBook-Stains-As-Manufacturin g-Defect-28129.shtml
Is this true?

Update, I just received my second MacBook today.
First one is week 20 but I really can't remember the surface on the wrist rest whether it smooth or rough, but it think it's smooth.
And my second MacBook, week 25, got it today.
The wrist rest is smooth, everything is PERFECT.
The keyboard is quite a bit better than the first one, I totally satisfied with it.
no moo, whine, display artifact at this time.
And the reason I returned the first one is because of the Hinge, it create some noise and not so smooth.

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Hey guys,
I recently noticed, while placing my macbook in my bag, some dark lines/discoloration on the bottom portion of my macbook (week 35--white). There appears to be some horizontal lines across the battery and one across where the ram modules snap into place. Has anybody else noticed this on their macbooks?

I have the same problem but I do not have a picture of the underneath (although I have the same problem).
I have the same problem on the top part of the Macbook and the lines and dark areas are huge.
I have a picture but I do not know what is an acceptable place to upload it, I don't want to just post the URL.
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SMC Firmware 1.4f12 has stopped my RSD (and increase speakers volume) but..

My black MacBook week 23 began RSD about a month after purchase. Initially I blamed the meditarranean summer, that's usually hotter than the suposed MB operational range of 10-35Cº. Finally, when RSS went worse, in mid September I called Apple and got a case number, but I didn't send for service because early repairs get RSD again more sooner than later
Following some hints on forums I almost reduced to zero the RSD ocurrence in normal use, but the MB kept on crashing under yes >/dev/null/ & test on cold or warm, but not on hot.
Yesterday October 26 I installed the SMC firmware 1.4f12, and I haven't had no more RSD even with the stress test. Although it's soon to consider an ultimate solution (if some wire isolation is melted/damaged by heat, no firmware update will fix it) I consider a big step ahead that RSD can be avoided by ignoring the erratic temperature sensor data that suposedly the overheated wire defect caused
Anyway, let's see if it works for all (or at least most) the affected, mine was not one of the worst cases, but some users claim to have had RSD after this firmware update, so let's wait and see
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You should check if the SMC firmware update is actually installed, in Applicatios/Utilities/System profile Hardware is the SMC version that should be 1.4f12 after last update.
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Mistake with Bootcamp can anyone help?

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I installed a Bootcamp Partition on my MacBook weeks ago and was going to get around to putting windows on it again.. (did it a few times) But today i wanted to erase the partition and instead of using bootcamp (like i should have i realise that now... :-() I used Disk Utility to "Erase" it, and i formatted it in "mac osx extended (journaled)" and now when i go into bootcamp to restore the mac to a single partition it says "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." I no i missed up but what can i do to fix this?
There is now two drives in my finder window, one that is "Macintosh HD" and the other is "Windows" but i can't delete that windows one to make one single drive from the two.
What do i do to restore this to a single drive because the windows drive is not showing its GB's on my mac and i really need that space to use...

it might be the right direction to you but i cant do that! i cant buy dvds or a hard drive i have no job and can not buy these things, just cos you can doesn't mean anyone else can. i bought this computer when i had a job and had money! and as for windows, i got it free, i didn't buy it! and the last time i checked it was free to run windows?! i don't care about buying security updates and all that i just want to run windows on my mac!
Running a computer is free, what the **** are you talking about? mac has free updates, and i have all the software i need on the installation disks, i got windows free, i don't pay for internet or electricity cos i use my dads where in there is costs?!?!?

Possible Random Shutdowns

Greetings to All,
I have been reading all these posts regarding random shutdowns on the MacBooks, and although I have never had it happen on either of my MacBooks (Week 27 and 29), I have had to troubleshoot a few that were having some issues, at our campus, with what was thought to be random shutdowns. These are Faculty/Staff machines.
Since time was at a premium, for me, I only spot-checked the batch of 7 and took peoples word for it. They have been following the discussions, after someone enlightened them to the discussion pages. I had one shut down on me after about 15 minutes of run time and it had hung up on a printer issue. I tried it again after letting it cool down, and it did the same thing after 30 minutes this time, and it was only when I went to do a test print – it hung again. There could have been others with this problem, but I didn’t have time to play around, and the others that I did test were a matter of fixing the user more than anything else.
I wiped them all clean, and reinstalled the OS X 10.4.7 from scratch, as well as Office 2004, and all of the Adobe software. The machine in question was used here for almost a week putting it through its paces without a single issue. I gave it and the others back to the users and everything was fine until a couple of days ago – she had had it for a week, and the shutdown trouble started again.
It turns out that some unauthorized software was installed; some printer drivers were installed for use at home, and some strange off the wall open source games. I blew it all away, again, and reinstalled as I did before and it’s working OK again. I did the same thing on another one that came back with more unauthorized stuff installed and other changes. It’s clean and working as normal, and all the other units are reporting OK, as I check on the folks every day.
I did do one other thing, I reseated the memory chips in all of them - and we bought the additional memory from Apple. They all have 1.256 Gig of Ram.
These were all bought in late July, but I didn’t look at the week they were built.
I do not work for Apple, I’m the Network Manager/Engineer for a large community college, and one of the few Mac users that have a fairly high level of hardware experience with regards to the Macs, as well as PeeCees, Solaris, HP-UX and so on and so forth.
It appears that bad software; drivers, programs, etc can kill the machine as well as hardware. My personal MacBooks have been working fine, so far and they have been hard at work every day for many hours a day with Parallels loaded so I can manage my Microsoft Active Directory – works great, too. I also have PeeCee notebooks and am perfectly happy with them, but I prefer a Mac and I don't want to lug around more than one notebook at a time. My other MacBook stays home for use there.
Cheers……. ☺
iBook 12" 1.42 MacBook Black 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 17" iMac PPC, 17" iMac Intel, Powerbook 12" 867, G-4 Tower, iMac Flat Panel, mor

I agree that it may be to soon to tell if the issue has gone away, and I hope it has. At the current time all of those MacBooks are up and running - I just called two of users that had the most trouble and they are happy campers, as they use them everyday for their classes, overhead projectors, Key Note presentations, email, and all the usual stuff.
On another note, and your timing is perfect, the Macbook that has been giving us the most trouble is back, with the same unauthorized software back on it. It was doing the random shut down thing until I removed all that software. As soon as I did that and turned it on, it started working again, and as of this point in time I'm writing this on it. I have been using the thing all morning for my daily routines without a glitch. I even installed Parallels on it and will install Win XP later.
I don't think heat is the issue, because when it's not behaving correctly, it shutdown within a minute or two. I have felt underneath and it is at room temperature. It is a lot warmer when I have it working, like right now writing this and burning a CD.
Am I satisfied that it's fixed for good - not a chance, I need to test further and pass this notebook around to my staff for a week. The Faculty member won't take it back as she is not happy, has no confidence in it and has decided that she wanted her desktop back.
What I have may not be the same thing as the other postings have eluded to, or maybe it is - who knows. I have 40 of these things, with 30 of them in a lab situation, and so far so good - not a glitch. We have Freeze-X on them so they can't install anything on them in the labs, so each time they reboot, they revert back to the way they were configured - works cool. I can't do that to the Faculty/Staff, much to my chagrin.
All of these machines are from the same time frame - bought at the same time, in otherwords.
I'll keep watching the saga unfold, and post if anything for sure comes along in the way of a fix, that I may get directly from Apple. They don't seem to know much about this issue, right now.
Cheers ...............

HELP - Combo superdrive scratches my CDs when tilted

Hi,
I have a problem with my macbook much like what is described on appledefects.com below. I tilt the macbook a little bit, like when lifting it up and it scratches my macbook. I purchased this macbook when it first came out, around like a week after it came out. I went to the apple store in NYC at Fifth ave and they said that the macbook isn't really meant to be worked on anything not on a flat surface. But I really feel that even with my macbook working on my lap, it shouldnt ruin my cds. They also said that this isn't registered on their database so that it doesn't qualified for repairs. Help!
Thanks.
Destruction of Media inserted into Combo/Superdrive
Reports of the inserted disks physically being destroyed by Apple's built in drives. Users report the
appearance of 'sandpaper' looking scratches, or other kinds of etching onto various media.
AT YOUR OWN RISK, here are instructions to damage the drive media, courtesy of apple's discussion boards:
Step 1: Put in CD/DVD into optical drive.
Step 2: Wait until the drive gets up some speed (so you hear the nice humm it makes when its spinning.
Step 3: Pick up your macbook and tilt left and right. (listen for the scratching noises)
Step 4: Eject the disk and notice that your DVD/CD has nice new pretty white markings on the readable side. (OH NO you just ruined your cd/dvd)
This has beeen fixed in macbooks weeks 36 and onwords. Call Apple Care if your drive causes this problem.
Source: http://www.appledefects.com/wiki/index.php?title=MacBook

sorry..it scratches my CD not my macbook...

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