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Hi,
Litterally 20 minutes ago, my macbook turned itself into a desktop machine. I have had zero problems with this Macbook pro, an 11th week production model, appart from a random "I'm not going to eject your disc no matter what" situation about 3 days after I got it, but that went away.
My problem is this. I was sitting in the living room typing an email, and watching tv. Closed the lid and went into my room. Rang my girlfriend, and had the laptop on my - lap - and opened it up to use the net at the same time. It them powered up, and in 3 seconds, turned off.
I thought I had jiggled the battery somehow (first thoughts) and put it on the desk and powered it up, the hard drive powered up, and 2 seconds later, it sounded like I had held the power button down for five seconds, and it dropped all power.
I took the batttery out, held down the power button for five seconds to drain it of any residual power, re-inserted the battery and it did the same thing again. I got out my power adapter, plugged it in, and it turned on fine. I removed the power cord and it powered down in 2 seconds.
So I now have to keep it plugged in to use it. Hmmmm. This calls up memories of reading about folks who have their machine randomly shut off whilst on battery or mains power. It seems to be working fine now as I am on this forum typing, but I know if I disconnect it, it will power off.
Any ideas?
I am in the middle of a lot of work at the moment, and the thought of returning this to Apple sickens me. Meaning I will have to wipe the hard drive before sending it and re-install all the crap again aftyerwards.
Any tips on what to try? I havent updated any firmware on it for ages, just general software updates a few weeks ago with Itunes 7 and the like. The only odd thing it did today, was I went home from the studio for a few hours, and left it in sleep mode with the power adapter plugged in, and an external hard drive plugged in. when I came back, and opened the lid, it wouldn't respond whatsoever, so I eneded up force shutting it down by holding the power button in for 5 seconds.
Anyway, I know if there is an answer, it will be from you guys. Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any help you can give me.
In my mind, it feels like a logic board problem. Oh, by the way, the battery I am using is the re-issued one from apple after they initiated the recall. I got it about 7 weeks ago and it has been fine.
Mel.
Litterally 20 minutes ago, my macbook turned itself into a desktop machine. I have had zero problems with this Macbook pro, an 11th week production model, appart from a random "I'm not going to eject your disc no matter what" situation about 3 days after I got it, but that went away.
My problem is this. I was sitting in the living room typing an email, and watching tv. Closed the lid and went into my room. Rang my girlfriend, and had the laptop on my - lap - and opened it up to use the net at the same time. It them powered up, and in 3 seconds, turned off.
I thought I had jiggled the battery somehow (first thoughts) and put it on the desk and powered it up, the hard drive powered up, and 2 seconds later, it sounded like I had held the power button down for five seconds, and it dropped all power.
I took the batttery out, held down the power button for five seconds to drain it of any residual power, re-inserted the battery and it did the same thing again. I got out my power adapter, plugged it in, and it turned on fine. I removed the power cord and it powered down in 2 seconds.
So I now have to keep it plugged in to use it. Hmmmm. This calls up memories of reading about folks who have their machine randomly shut off whilst on battery or mains power. It seems to be working fine now as I am on this forum typing, but I know if I disconnect it, it will power off.
Any ideas?
I am in the middle of a lot of work at the moment, and the thought of returning this to Apple sickens me. Meaning I will have to wipe the hard drive before sending it and re-install all the crap again aftyerwards.
Any tips on what to try? I havent updated any firmware on it for ages, just general software updates a few weeks ago with Itunes 7 and the like. The only odd thing it did today, was I went home from the studio for a few hours, and left it in sleep mode with the power adapter plugged in, and an external hard drive plugged in. when I came back, and opened the lid, it wouldn't respond whatsoever, so I eneded up force shutting it down by holding the power button in for 5 seconds.
Anyway, I know if there is an answer, it will be from you guys. Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any help you can give me.
In my mind, it feels like a logic board problem. Oh, by the way, the battery I am using is the re-issued one from apple after they initiated the recall. I got it about 7 weeks ago and it has been fine.
Mel.