Newly Designed Logic & Heat Sink Also causes RSD
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I received my macbook yesterday after replacement with newly designed heat sink & logic board. I thought now no more running to apple center and wasting time talking to apple telephone support.
But my macbook is again showing signs for shutdown. I have confirmed with the service centre the logic board fixed in my unit is brand new and what people here claim to be newly designed. The service centre wants me bring back the macbook and they will order another logic board for it.
I cant take it anymore. I have decided to again start using my old faithful ibook.
I will file a suit against the company in consumer court and will seek refund for my macbook and compensation for time and money lost visiting apple to get this fixed.
September 21st, 2006 at 9:33 pm
I received also mine 2 days ago
I test CPU temp with speedit and coreduotemp temp temp do nor move after the first launch of the application.
Does so could test it ?
Regards
September 21st, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Well that’s just freakin great. I just got mine back today, so I guess I’ll count down the days to when it crashes again. Took 3 months from when I bought it to originally start shutting down. When did you get yours back from repair?
September 21st, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Well, hope the lawsuit goes well.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:35 am
What grounds do you think you have for a suit?
I am not defending Apple (especially after a three week repair turn around on my MacBook) but it is likely that they will show that they made a good faith effort to remedy the problem. As has been posted in many sites, it seems that the parts were simply unavailable for several weeks and that the cause is still somewhat of a mystery. I can only imagine your frustration at the repair not working, but as early adopters, I think we all take more of a chance then with a model that has been out longer. As someone who’s MacBook has been working since the repair, I am not going to be really comfortable with it staying fixed until several months have past, if even then.
I would also assume that Apple’s user agreement has some indemnity clause to protect them from the damages that you are seeking, but then I did not read it (who does?).
Repair, replacement, refund, I hope you get one of these options that will work for you. I actually envy you in a way, you have a certain road ahead, while I wonder if RSS will be revisiting my MacBook and plunging me, once again, into uncertainty.
If you want to switch, I have had good luck with Sonys and IBMs in the past.
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:11 am
Can you tell us the part numbers for the new logic board and heat sink you got?
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I thought they need to replace also the fan instead logic+heatsink. It could be the fan connector made the trigger(short circuit) with logic and the RSD again came bothering your macbook.
For some reason it is good if you bring artic silver 5 to the technician to put it in between your heatsink and the processor. It will made your temprature processor down until 5 or 10 celcius. If possible don’t always put your keyboard protector,because the air circulation will closed with that keyboard protector and will make your processor became heat and hot spicy:)
just my thougt thou:)
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Razak:)
September 26th, 2006 at 4:28 am
Here’s what I had replaced:
APP-630-7871 PCB,
MLB,
2.0GHZ DC,
SMS/KIONI APP-603-8071 ASSY,
HEATSINK,
M42 APP-593-0269 BT CABLE
So far, I haven’t had any problems. However, I still notice just one minor detail which makes me think that I will eventually have shutdowns again. Only after a cold boot do I get these strange “clicks.” This “click” only happen right before my macbook turns off, whether it be a random shutdown or when I tell it to turn off. I can hear this intermittently after starting my macbook, but eventually stops when the computer warms up. I might be paranoid, but at this point any information could help.