MacBook Flashing light and beeping noise
Hello I just recently brought a brand new 15" MacBook Pro Model #MB513LL/A. My second laptop since my old G3 PowerBook prismo.
After 2 days of using the laptop, I experience something I never expected to see, nor heard of. The laptop froze and the screen went black, after that. The sleep indicator light repeatedly flash 3x and made a beeping noise with each light. It would flash and beep 3x, pause for like 3 or 4 secs and then resume again in the same matter. I couldn't get the computer to start up again. I had to hold down the power button to stop the flashing and beeping noise.
After an hour of leaving it alone, I attempt to start it up and it started fine. However it did happened again like 3 times already.
Each time leaving the computer alone it would start up fine. I ran a hardware test and found nothing wrong. I did notice when it happened the second time the light only flash 1x and a sinlge beep. Is this some sort of way of reading what wrong with the computer? I couldn't find anything on the internet about this problem.
I was just wondering if anybody had a similar experience with the flashing and beeping noise. I spoke to a mac person at the apple store and never heard of this? Could it be a overheating problem?
I am shock and very disappointed with this. I was even thinking of upgrading to 4GB of ram and maybe getting a larger HD. But I would like to know what was causing this problem. It's barely a week old in my hands.
A few things I should mention of what I did before the problems occur. I did partition the drive so I could experience XP on a mac machine. I only use 42 GB of space for XP. The only driver I needed to install was the realtek audio driver. So I could use the headset.
Other than that, XP ran awesome! I even tested the hardware by playing battlefield 2 using a second 24"display for like 4 hours. No problem! ran even faster than my Dual core opteron PC.
Then after I quit the game and return to the XP desktop it froze. I had to do a manual shut down. This is when I encounter the first flashing light/beeping noise. I couldn't even eject the CD since the computer wouldn't start up. At first I thought maybe this was a window malfunction or the disc got jam in the drive. Not sure?
However after leaving the computer alone for an hour it started up in OSX mode and I was able to eject the Disc. The second malfunction occur when I was updated leopard OS. So at this point I figured it's a hardware related problem? So any ideas?
Also, how do yo eject the a disc if you have trouble starting up the computer. I don't see a pin hole eject slot.
Any help or ideas will be helpful,
Thanks
After 2 days of using the laptop, I experience something I never expected to see, nor heard of. The laptop froze and the screen went black, after that. The sleep indicator light repeatedly flash 3x and made a beeping noise with each light. It would flash and beep 3x, pause for like 3 or 4 secs and then resume again in the same matter. I couldn't get the computer to start up again. I had to hold down the power button to stop the flashing and beeping noise.
After an hour of leaving it alone, I attempt to start it up and it started fine. However it did happened again like 3 times already.
Each time leaving the computer alone it would start up fine. I ran a hardware test and found nothing wrong. I did notice when it happened the second time the light only flash 1x and a sinlge beep. Is this some sort of way of reading what wrong with the computer? I couldn't find anything on the internet about this problem.
I was just wondering if anybody had a similar experience with the flashing and beeping noise. I spoke to a mac person at the apple store and never heard of this? Could it be a overheating problem?
I am shock and very disappointed with this. I was even thinking of upgrading to 4GB of ram and maybe getting a larger HD. But I would like to know what was causing this problem. It's barely a week old in my hands.
A few things I should mention of what I did before the problems occur. I did partition the drive so I could experience XP on a mac machine. I only use 42 GB of space for XP. The only driver I needed to install was the realtek audio driver. So I could use the headset.
Other than that, XP ran awesome! I even tested the hardware by playing battlefield 2 using a second 24"display for like 4 hours. No problem! ran even faster than my Dual core opteron PC.
Then after I quit the game and return to the XP desktop it froze. I had to do a manual shut down. This is when I encounter the first flashing light/beeping noise. I couldn't even eject the CD since the computer wouldn't start up. At first I thought maybe this was a window malfunction or the disc got jam in the drive. Not sure?
However after leaving the computer alone for an hour it started up in OSX mode and I was able to eject the Disc. The second malfunction occur when I was updated leopard OS. So at this point I figured it's a hardware related problem? So any ideas?
Also, how do yo eject the a disc if you have trouble starting up the computer. I don't see a pin hole eject slot.
Any help or ideas will be helpful,
Thanks
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