Final Fix: Heat Sink
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Just to let everyone know that I just got my MB back from Apple. I picked it up from the local Apple Store and noticed that the only replaced the heat sink and the keyboard cover. I asked why they did not replace the logic board and they said that the Apple engineers have confirmed that the problem is the heat sink. So, the machine has been running great so far but we’ll see if the Apple Genius that I spoke with was correct.
October 4th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
I wouldn’t cheer yet, as my MacBook had the same shutdown problem and the heatsink was replaced at an autorised Apple service shop a few days ago, just as Apple had instructed. Well, today the shutdowns started again. I took my MB back to the service today and the guys there were dumbfounded, replacing the heatsink should have solved the problem. Oh well, they promised to look at it again. I hope it was just a defective spare part..
October 4th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I’m in a small boat it seems…I had my heatsink replaced last month now got mine back after the logic board was replaced and I still have RSS apple told me it must be my ram so upon getting it back I tracked a friend down who has a macbook and I stole his ram only to 50 minutes later find out it still has RSS… now after demanding a new unit I was promised by 3 diffrent Tech 1 being a t2 product expert* and now after calling back and talking to the floor manager for the macbook pro’s I was told that I was informed incorectly and that I was not able to get a replacment and that I need to call back and talk to my previous agent for more* help…… so now I’m waiting for a callback from Apple…………………
October 5th, 2006 at 1:47 am
My just started doing the random shutdown a few days ago. To prevent it I do this. When you start to hear the fans rev up, put the computer to sleep, then wake it (after the light flased and the fans stop) and all good until the next rev up. I know, I know. It’s not a fix but at least I can keep working. Oh, while I have it powered by a/c I use the “better energy savings” setting. All this until I can bring myself to turn it in for repair. I can’t recommend apple anymore – what am I to do? Vista?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
I also have RSS back. I’m thinking the problem is not with the heatsink but with the logic board. Think about it, if it was a short in the wires of the heat sink why does holding the reboot for like 20 seconds and waiting for the beep make any difference. Thats the only way I can get it to boot when its playing up.
October 11th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
[...] Well, it just keeps getting better; besides the fact that it has it’s own website named after it, it seems that no matter what anybody proposes or suggests as the "final solution" for RSS, there is someone, somewhere who says: "No, I did that and it still occurs." Macbook Random Shutdown » Blog Archive : Final Fix: Heat Sink » Final Fix: Heat Sink [...]