Random Shut Down MAYBE the truth :)

Hi everybody, i have the same issues of you all with my Macbook black...
The random shutdown is not so "random" because is a fan related issue.
With CoreDuoTemp i noticed that running command 'yes' in console cpu temp increase rapidly till 81° C ... then voltage and frequency get decreased to 1,83 then 1 ghz but intel processor protection shut down the system.
The fan in this process is not running at all, macbook is silent instead of using the fan.
I noticed this because i bought this mac in may and since last firmware update i didn't have any kind of problem.
I'm pretty sure that this issue is 100% related to latest firmware update.
Now the only thing to do is to get back mooing fan with the old firmware but how?
Apple please help us!

Many of us have reported that the RSD occur when the computer is cold, rather than hot. Warmth has never been the issue with mine. So it is probably a combination of many different issues, one of which is fan activity.
RSDs are the symptom of a very complicated and large number of issues; most probably they have to do with thermal management, but nobody really knows for sure... hopefully the Apple in-house hardware experts will finally arrive to some kind of conclusion, or series of conclusions.
MacBook 2.0 White Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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It's not that apple isn't telling us what's wrong wih our MacBooks, it's that they look at us like we have two heads when we tell them that there IS a problem, as if they don't already know it! I just figure that if there 869 people registered with RSD issues at www.macbookrandomshutdown.com, then statistically speaking it's not unreasonably to say that there might be more than twice that with the problem. I'd say Apple could stop treating us all like we're silly kids who broke our toys. <<<<<</div>
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ghunarsdad- my thing with the number of posts on the different forums is that everyone who has the issue is perturbed, and if they are online i doubt they are only ranting on this forum, so alot of that has to be repeat postings for people to vent their frustrations.
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