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I have an older 15 in macbook pro that has been giving me quite a few problems.
Please forgive the mini-novel, but I thought I'd give as much info up front. I am also a mac newb, as you may be able to tell from the following:
I upgraded from Tiger to SL about 5 or 6 weeks ago. At the time I did not have an external HD to back up to so I installed SL without a clean wipe of the internal drive (which I understand is the recommended way to go). I also had to install more ram in order to support SL (not apple specific ram, but purchased from an apple-mainly store and installed by an apple certified tech).
Shortly after installing SL, the machine began randomly freezing, crashing, & running hot. I also began to get random horizontal lines going across the screen. They come and go and appear in different places. About 2 weeks ago, it totally stopped booting. I had to use the DVD to get it to book. Once booted, I used the disk utility to scan the HD, and there were problems that the utility couldn't fix. I took it to an apple store and they ran all sorts of utilities. They were slammed and I did not get a chance to ask specifically what they did.. all I know is that it took them several hours to run the tests. What I do know is that they did not do anything to the hardware per se. They eventually got it running fine ... for about a week.
It began crashing again, and I began noticing that it would be more likely to crash the hotter it got. In fact, when it was doing this, I could put it in my cold garage to cool down and it would run fine ... until it heated up again.
So I backed up to an external HD using Time Machine, erased my internal HD, and re-installed SL. That did not fix the overheating issue unfortunately. I also unplugged the mag safe, removed the battery, and pressed the on/off button, as I read that this sometimes re-sets how a mbp heats, cools, and so on. If there are any suggestions on where to go from here, I'd appreciate them.
Thanks!
Please forgive the mini-novel, but I thought I'd give as much info up front. I am also a mac newb, as you may be able to tell from the following:
I upgraded from Tiger to SL about 5 or 6 weeks ago. At the time I did not have an external HD to back up to so I installed SL without a clean wipe of the internal drive (which I understand is the recommended way to go). I also had to install more ram in order to support SL (not apple specific ram, but purchased from an apple-mainly store and installed by an apple certified tech).
Shortly after installing SL, the machine began randomly freezing, crashing, & running hot. I also began to get random horizontal lines going across the screen. They come and go and appear in different places. About 2 weeks ago, it totally stopped booting. I had to use the DVD to get it to book. Once booted, I used the disk utility to scan the HD, and there were problems that the utility couldn't fix. I took it to an apple store and they ran all sorts of utilities. They were slammed and I did not get a chance to ask specifically what they did.. all I know is that it took them several hours to run the tests. What I do know is that they did not do anything to the hardware per se. They eventually got it running fine ... for about a week.
It began crashing again, and I began noticing that it would be more likely to crash the hotter it got. In fact, when it was doing this, I could put it in my cold garage to cool down and it would run fine ... until it heated up again.
So I backed up to an external HD using Time Machine, erased my internal HD, and re-installed SL. That did not fix the overheating issue unfortunately. I also unplugged the mag safe, removed the battery, and pressed the on/off button, as I read that this sometimes re-sets how a mbp heats, cools, and so on. If there are any suggestions on where to go from here, I'd appreciate them.
Thanks!
