Auttum seems to have cured my MB RSS
My black Macbook is week 23, bought 12 June, receivend early July, started RSD early August. As stated on lots of posts, it crashed before and after firmware update to 1.4.7, apparently when warming up, always in the first minutes after power on, and, when it went worse, even during start-up while charging the MacOSX. Finally I called mid-September to Apple Service phone here in Spain, they gave me a case number to bring the MB to the nearest Apple Center (100 Km from my home) and they suggest me to visit the forums in Support Apple webpages. While discovering the bunch of hangry users affected by their MB RSD, I found on the forums some tricks and hints that users had try to minimize or avoid somehow the crashes (for example some Economizer settings like unchecking “Auto restart after a power cut”, it’s translating from spanish so not exactly this but you know, and some energy saving actions like disabling Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and reducing screen bright) Surprisingly, it almost reduced to zero the RSD, in fact only one crash in normal use after those tricks, although the crash test yes >/dev/null & runned twice in Terminal kept crashing the MB. As the behaviour of MB has improve a lot, and early repairs seems to develop again fastly the RSD, I didn’t send my MB for repair and I wont until a real and clear solution is found. But the best was yet to arrive. When finally the auttum arrived late september, with first rain in months and a small but noticeable descent in ambiental temperature, RSD absolutely disappear, even with the crash test yes etc.. By now, my MB seems to be again the magnificent piece of enginering and design it was supposed to be, but I’m afraid next summer RSD nightmare will be back and then without warranty! I’ll see what Apple tech service men say to me when I’ll be able to contact them, three tries by phone and I haven’t talk with them yet, they seem very busy, maybe trying to repair all those defective MB…
I updated software yesterday and it seems there was some SMC Intel upgrade in the middle of iTunes, Quicktime and lots of others. Maybe, although RSD seemed clearly a hardware issue temperature related, the Apple men have found some better cooling pattern with this software (changing fan management somehow reduce working core temperature to lower and safer level). It would be so great that they had found a software solution, but my MB worked fine BEFORE update, so it doesn`t seem to be the ultimate solution I’m waiting for. But at least now I can use the MB without fear of loosing the work on progress, and after the depresive times of several crashes per day, it’s a great great great step ahead.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Really, send it in for repair. Apple has identified the problem as heat related and the fix is replacement of heat sink, logicboard, and HD. The HD becomes damaged by excessive heat.
Shutdowns occurred with my machine when it was under a lot of stress.. running lots of programs at once= heat.
A mistake I was making was putting it away in the case without shutting down…= heat build up. Doubt that really caused the problem, but probably helped bring on the defect in the machine earlier so I could know about it and get it fixed. I’m glad it didn’t start a year after I had it. My MB was away for 10 days for repair and seems to be doing great after a week, the fan hasn’t run once.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I have exactly the same thing, the problem appears to have stopped. I am hesitant about sending it for repair, currently the problem is not present.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Today, I’ve got my first induced RSD after about 10 days of absence (much better behaviour than most of the early Apple repairs reported on forums as crashing again in few days). I run for 15 minutes the crash test (yes >/dev/null & twice in Terminal) every time I boot up or awake the MB, and the “auttum cure miracle” seemed to had fix the RSS on my black MB even forcing the Core Duo to 100% activity, but today, running the crash test while cold, I mean right after startup, it crashed. Fortunately, it started up OK after the RSD, and waiting some minutes for more progressive warm-up I ran the test again and MB didn’t crash. Now I’m running the test after hours of Sleep since this morning, and have past the 15 minutes without crashing. It will make difficult to show to Apple servicemen that my MB has the RSS if it doesn’t crash with test, but the general impression on forums that RSS only goes worst until MB don’t even boot up seems to be questioned by my case (and some other that have had the same misterious auttum cure). Anyway, as I haven’t had a RSD in normal use for almost three weeks, I’ll wait and see if recent repairs (those with newly designed heatsink and logicboard change) avoid RSD, because even very recent repairs with supposedly RSS free components seems to fall again. So, please, those who have had it repaired recently please report if it works fine after some weeks and/or months, those really and ultimately fixed seems less than the ones that fall in RSS again, but maybe it is because the hangry ones tend to post more than the happy ones. I’ll wait and see before I send to the Apple service for repair.
October 13th, 2006 at 2:36 am
Feeling lucky…ever since I’ve had my MB, I’ve been using it with bluetooth, airport, multiple programs AND have left it running
ALL DAY long as it runs Power Etrade trading platform during stock trading hours. I may just be on borrowed time. But…
here’s what I’ve been doing ever since I got it. I plopped it atop
a cheap Targus dual fan laptop pad. (Here’s the amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Targus-PA248U-Tornado-Notebook-Chill/dp/B0000AKA8Y/sr=8-1/qid=1160706563/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2914321-6979105?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
I suspect I won’t be immuned to RSS over time…but hopefully, if this
setup keeps my MB working for months, it’ll buy time for Apple to get an effect hardware ‘fix’.
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