MacBook Woes

Captain-Fungi · 4 Sep 2006 at 18:56

Got my MacBook way back in June and it seems to have developed a fault where it randomly shuts down.

One minute it will be working and the next *boom* the power gets switched off. This happens wether it is running on battery or on mains.

I have done some research and it appears that there are other people experiencing this problem and there is no known fix.

I telephoned Apple this morning and they are going to send out a man with a box to collect it tomorrow. Anyone know how long these things take to be returned?

Anyone else have/had the same problem?

Captain-Fungi · 4 Sep 2006 at 19:10

Used every other day since June. I didnt expect it to break this easy, maybe Apple dont test their products before they release them?

Although, saying that, I have had my Ipod since they first came out and it is fine.

Captain-Fungi · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:28

Well they collected on Tuesday and have heard nothing else off them since. My repair status is set to "diagnosing product".

Hopefully I will get it back soon, I miss my nice white MacBook

Captain-Fungi · 25 Sep 2006 at 18:52

Update: Got my macbook back last Tuesday and the shutdown issue is resolved, seems like the logic board change worked.

Now the machine keeps freezing, beachballing at random intervals and then suddenly kicking back into life. I have swapped RAM and reinstalled OSX, reset the PRAM and PMU and I still have the same problem.

I rang Apple and they are completley baffled by this, I have done some research on the official mac forums and it appears like it needs a HDD replacement as some of the early Fujitsu models all show these same symptoms.

Hopefully Apple will have sent me a new disk within the next few days.

Either way I am not a happy bunny.

Anyone else experienced similar problems?

Captain-Fungi · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:53

Well all the people over at this thread are seeing the issue and its all Fujitsu hard disks.

Looks like early MacBooks shipped with a donald Fujistu hard disks that fail over time.

Oh and I have a 120GB Fuji HDD not just the "stock" size.

Captain-Fungi · 26 Sep 2006 at 11:46

They changed my bezel as well.

Captain-Fungi · 26 Sep 2006 at 16:43

UPS just delivered my new drive and am installing OS X now. Lets hope this fixes my problems, I will report back with my findings.

*crosses fingers*

Captain-Fungi · 1 Oct 2006 at 13:20

I installed my new HDD that I received from Apple and have had NO problems since.

To view which make of HDD you have you can use the "System Profiler" tool found in the utilities folder withing the Applications directory.