Random Shutdowns (Driving me crazy)

After owning my MacBook for about a month, just 2 days ago, my MacBook randomly shutdown right after I booted it up. Then when I went to power up again, it immediately shutdown after the ding start-up noise.
The shutdowns have gotten more frequent and sometimes I have to try about 3 power ups in order for it to stay on.
Just a note (but I don't think it's related) I installed Windows XP through Bootcamp yesterday, however the shutdowns had already been occuring a day or two BEFORE I installed it.
I am using upgraded RAM (2x512mb), however it's the RAM that Apple provided me with, and therefore I don't have the stock 512mb original RAM. It was already upgraded the day I got it.
Other than those two significant changes to my MacBook, nothing else is different.
Again, note that these shutdowns have occured after owning my MacBook for about a month. (I bought it at the end of July).

contact apple care. this is a relatively common problem. Either go to an apple store or send in your macbook and they'll fix it. It took them about two days to fix mine and I've had it back about a month now with no problems.

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I had posted about a week back about my Macbook (Core duo white, late 2006), it was having the same symptoms as some of the others with the known random shutdown syndrome (RSS). Like many others I had thought it was the end of my macbook and the logicboard needed replacing because that is what the 'genius' people do, but I was still wondering what would cause it. It would randomly shut off! (or so I thought) I'd be typing in Safari, watching a youtube video, and even playing games, it would just shut off and I could hear the hard drive spin down. I'd restart and it would do it again sometimes right away, sometimes hours later.
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Fully Charged:          No
Charging:          No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):          4610
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Voltage (mV):          11793
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          0
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          90
Automatic Restart on Power Loss:          No
Wake on AC Change:          No
Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Wake on LAN:          No
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
GPUSwitch:          2
PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep:          0
RestartAfterKernelPanic:          157680000
Battery Power:
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Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          2
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Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Current Power Source:          Yes
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Who in their right mind is FAKING their shutdown issue to get the identical logic board swapped in ?? What would be the point of this ? Why don't they just believe people are not crazy and replace the mother boards ?
Am I supposed to camp in the store praying for a shutdown so they can see it ?
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That's very interesting coooldoc. I tried it on my
MacBook just for kicks. When I entered the commands
it did indeed max out the processors. I watched my
iPulse peg both processors to 99-100% but my fans
never did kick in.
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Random shutdown and wouldn't start up

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Zed

Macbook problems, hard drive crash, random shutdown, freezes

I bought my macbook used a few months ago, and it worked flawlessly until about 3 weeks ago. The system started freezing and not booting (getting folder icon instead of apple at startup). I ran drive setup and tried to repair the drive, but this did not fix the problem. DiskWarrior also could not fix it. I pulled the drive and installed a new hard drive, as I wanted a larger capacity anyways. All my problems appeared fixed for about two weeks, then similar problems began occurring. I backed up all the files I needed to an external firewire drive and attempted to reformat the new internal drive. Drive Setup says it can not reformat the drive - can't mount it and if it does, the drive disappears while in the process of formatting. I pulled the new drive and am having it replaced under warranty. I am using the firewire drive to run my computer, and this seemed to work fine for a day or two until the computer just started shutting down with no warning. Everything goes black, including the little light on the front of the computer. I have to hold down the power button for 10 seconds before it lets me start the computer back up. I had read this may be a memory issue, so I ran memtest and it says the memory is fine (I need to do it in single user mode still, however). I also tried pulling both sticks of ram. They are both 1GB crucial memory. I put each stick in by itself and tried it in both slots and was able to reproduce the shutdown issue with any ram configuration of either stick.
After all this, I realized the firewire drive was only running 10.5, so I updated all the software through software update, and it is now running 10.5.2. It seems to be working better as I have not experienced a random shutdown yet, but I'm anticipating it may start back up soon. Today, however I experienced a different problem - the screen froze on me and the only way to get anything to happen was to force a shutdown with them power button. It's restarted and seems to be working fine again for now.
I've run some logs and here's some things I've found:
When the latest freeze happened, I got this repeated over 100 times:
Apr 29 11:04:31 jon-turners-macbook quicklookd[536]: CGContextClosePath: no current point.
I've also seen this:
Apr 29 11:18:19 jon-turners-macbook kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Apr 29 11:18:19 jon-turners-macbook kernel[0]: GFX0: family specific matching fails
Apr 25 19:19:50 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
Should there be anything else I can check? I would run Apple Hardware Utilities, but I don't have the original disks, just the Leopard installer. I have Disk Warrior, but it seems strange this would happen with multiple systems and drives. I'd like to get Techtool Pro, but haven't had the money/time to order it yet.

Thanks for the replies!
Yeah, I think it's the HDD. I was just worried that the RAM was bad and corrupted the HDD or something, but given the symptoms I think you guys are right. Ordered a 7200RPM 320GB HDD off Amazon Prime...will be here tomorrow
I'll post how it goes after I finish installing it. I'm backing up as I type.
I wonder if I can fix the ir port and the sleep indicator light when I install the hard-drive. The sleep indicator light never turns off. It stays on as long as my computer is on, only turns off when I shut it down.

Random Shutdowns (Driving me crazy)

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