macbook shutdown cure
I don’t know if any of you have tried this but I went to the apple store after my macbook repeatedly kept shutting down and the guy said the only thing you have to do is keep performing the software updates whenever there are new ones. It sounded like a load of crap but sure enough when I got home and performed all of the software updates, my macbook miraculously stopped shutting off. It’s probably one of the five greatest things to ever occur to me in my life. Now I check for software updates daily and no matter what it is, I update it. All you have to do is click your “system preferences” then under the “system” you will see “software updates” and then click “check now” and it will search for all the updates. If you choose to update them all at once it can take quite a while so I did them 1 by 1. Ever since I started doing that I have not had ANY random shutdowns. Maybe it works for you, maybe not. Maybe I just wasted 40 seconds of your life. Let’s hope its the first part. Good luck to all you fellow angry mac users.
March 13th, 2007 at 8:39 am
I purchased a new white Macbook from an apple store 5 months back, recently we reinstalled the Windows OS, which by the way took almost 2 hours a task that was shared by two techs. Shortly there after when running OSX we encountered the random shutdown, it quickly got worse and worse, so bad that we could not run the machine for more than 5 seconds with out it shutting down, seriously it would shut down during start up! I got online (on my other Mac) first tried the apple site which to my surprise returned no record of such an issue. So I goggled and this site was the second search return I got, came across your posting and tired it. We let the Macbook rest for like 15-20 mins, then restarted and I immediately raced to activate the software update (which has not run for some time). Because I didn’t have the time to run all updates due to fear of it shutting down I only selected the Firmwire update which was actually very quick. Amazingly enough it actually worked it stop shutting down! Its been almost 24 hours and no random shut downs yet. I’ve surfed, emailed even ran Word and Adobe illustrator even printed and still no shut down! Before initiating the vicious apple repair process try updating the firm wire first. I know it sounds to easy to be true, but it worked for me.
Hope this helps.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I think that problem is happening on just a small percentage of the macbooks sold by apple. I bought mine on refurbished on Apple Store by dec of 2006 and it is working pretty well. I’ve already burned a lot of dvd’s and made movies with iMovie, used iDVD, Office (this one very slow cause is non native), Photoshop etc. No problems for me, thanks God. But they should have to change the deffective equipments. I have one iPod that had a problem, but they changed it for a new one very fast.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Funny… updating to Mac OS X 10.4.9 started my shutdown problems.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Yeah, I updated everything and it just made my problems worse.
Look at it this way, China Mac–if you’re updating every day, you’re rebooting the machine every day. Perhaps this makes a RSD less likely, because you’re just scheduling them.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
apple store ipod repair…
That is sweet! I wish my wife would understand it….