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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zippythecellist" data-source="post: 1604008" data-attributes="member: 329218">This doesn't happen every time I watch a video, so I'm not sure what the problem is. A couple of week ago I tried to watch a video on an anime site, (I don't remember which one) and all of a sudden the video froze, but the sound didn't. Then the screen proceeded to keep going on and off, but I know my computer was still on since I still heard the sound which was still not frozen. Obviously I had to hard reset, and that seemed to fix the problem.But then today while I was watching a video on a local news station website, the video and the audio froze. Again, I couldn't get anything to respond after waiting a minute or two, so I had to hard reset. When I turned my computer back on, it stood on the white screen with the apple logo for a minute, then suddenly turned off. When I pressed the battery indicator button after that, it didn't light up at all. But when I tried turning my computer back on after that, it came on but took a little longer than usual to start up. I also got the "your clock is set to a date before 2008" message and had to log back in to my wifi. I have NO idea what is the problem here...I don't think it is my battery, since it is a brand new one from OWC with only 15 cycles. Running out of battery can't be the issue either, since I had around 53-55 percent of the battery left when this happened.edit: Right after I wrote this post and went to eat dinner, I came back up to find that my mac had turned itself off...I pressed the battery indicator, and it showed 4 lights as I expected but wouldn't turn back on. When I plugged the charger in to try an smc reset, all of a sudden all the lights started flashing as if there was no battery. And when I did get my computer on, I did indeed see an X where the battery symbol is. And right as I was typing that sentence, a percentage showed back up on the bar, but the charger light is still green...but coconut battery shows it as charging as does the battery indicator. If an SMC reset doesn't work, what else can I try? I will seriously cry if it's my logic board. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />edit 2: Well, it looks like I'm going to cry then. After an smc reset, it APPEARED to work at first since the charger light changed to orange, but then my computer starting acting as if it had no battery again. And it hasn't switched back like it did before the reset. Is there ANYTHING else that could cause this besides a bad logic board? If it is my logic board and a new laptop was the only possible fix, would it be possible to have it replaced with a refurbished 17" model the same as mine or newer at the apple store? I have bad vision, so the new 15" mbp's are not going to be doable...I've tried them every time I've seen them in a store and it just isn't going to work out. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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