Crashing while running @ 1Ghz
I’ve had my macbook for just over 3 months now, and it started crashing infrequently a little before the 2 month mark. I am a student in lubbock, TX, so with no mac store in the area, I figured I would just wait until i visit my family in Dallas to get it fixed. Over the past month, my computer got worse and worse, shutting down within the first five minutes of use consistently.
So, for the time being, I reverted to a fix I read online – just hold down the power button when starting up until the beep sounds to run @ 1Ghz. This worked for a while, although it was slightly annoying (i.e. turning on the computer and sounding the excruciatingly loud beep during class isn’t too cool…I swear that thing breaks the 100 dB mark…). After a couple of weeks, however, RSS again plagued my computer – this time in the 1Ghz mode. I found that if I run it @ 1Ghz for a long time, till it starts shutting down frequently, it allows me to run it @ 2Gzh for a while, sometimes a few hours. After that, the shutdowns @ 2Ghz get worse, and I switch back over to 1Ghz, which works for a couple of hours. I finally got fed up with this process (translation – “was about to smash my macbook with a sledgehammer”) and decided to send it in. That was 11 days ago, and it’s slated for return tomorrow.
I’ve heard a lot of people say that booting the computer in 1Ghz mode fixes the problem (albeit only temporarily and with processor speed cut in half). This isn’t true. It worked for a little while, but my macbook eventually got to the same level of shutdown frequency only running one core.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I tried the same thing. Ran in 1 Ghz mode for a while then suddenly it started shutting down even on low cpu-power. So the macbook shuts down everytime I start it cold, may run for a couple of minutes but allways shuts down. When I get it to start after that it so far has run without any problems. I think the problem is that the heat sensors sends the wrong info about the computer. The processor “thinks” the computer is to hot because of that and shuts it down at boot-time. Why on earth should it run for hours when IT IS hot and shut down when it IS COLD otherwise?
September 27th, 2006 at 10:16 am
I tried the same thing. Ran in 1 Ghz mode for a while then suddenly it started shutting down even on low cpu-power. So the macbook shuts down everytime I start it cold, may run for a couple of minutes but allways shuts down. When I get it to start after that it so far has run without any problems. I think the problem is that the heat sensors sends the wrong info about the computer. The processor “thinks†the computer is to hot because of that and shuts it down at boot-time. Why on earth should it run for hours when IT IS hot and shut down when it IS COLD otherwise?