Possible Fix for the Random Shutdown Issue

One of the readers at MacFixit was able too find a solution to his RSD Macbook. He discovered when he removed the top case (they keyboard) off his machine, the Macbook worked fine. After further investigation, he found out that the top case and the heat sync seem to touch each other while the machine is closed (generating more heat). To fix the RSD he put kapton tape on the top case (to separate the heat sync and the top case) and on the track pad cable. Not only did it fix the RSD problem, another plus it causes the computer to run cooler.
So it appears what Apple needs to do is, either put Kapton tape on the top case, or move some the thermal grease from the processor too the top case. Another easy fix might be just to send out new top cases (since only a significant minority are effected by this problem, their might just be a set of bad cases out their).
Before you decide to open up your machine and put on Kapton tape on your machine, keep this in mind, it will void your warranty.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060821101232169
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Holding down the power button until it beeps is still the only way that I can get my machine to boot up fully and become operational. I was starting to think that I was crazy after reading above that all it did was to remind me that my finger was still on the power button. I've had my husband and my son watch this process just to convince myself I wasn't crazy.
I've been deleting software, going through log files, making other changes to make sure that they weren't interfering with the machine working. I shut the machine off this morning to go do something else. When I turned it on again I forgot to hold the power button until I heard the beep. After I logged in, I realized that I hadn't done that and that the machine had actually gone through the complete boot cycle and login. I thought "wow, maybe I fixed it. Maybe it was something software related." I waited for a few minutes to make sure that everything that it had to do in its start up was finished before I did anything thinking "well maybe its just that I try to do too many things too quickly, and it is operator error and my fault I've been having this problem". Then I went to open Safari and "blink" the machine went dead.
Then I put my finger on the power button until it beeped to start it up a second time. I've been working on it for six hours now. It's gone to sleep while I've been on the phone, I've woken it up with a short press of the power button and logged in a few times today.....not one single problem in 6 hours.
It's crazy. I don't know what holding the power button for that long does but it must be resetting or otherwise doing something that causes it to override whatever problem was causing it to just shut down by itself. I love everything else about this MacBook. I don't want to have someone start taking it apart and putting it back together again. If the fix is just remembering to "hold power until it beeps" I"ll live with it.

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