Macbook Pro board failure...
Since I bought my MBP exaclty 1 year ago + 15 days, I never liked it, because it's slowly and fails all the time.
For example when I close my Firefox with 30 open tabs, it usually takes more than 5 minutes.
Here are all the issues I deal with:
- Slowly environment (running any app);
- Never come back from sleep;
- Stops at the boot, blinking the power light and only come back after open the computer, with the back cover open;
- Freezes the S.O.;
- Umount external hard drives;
- So on...
But why does it works when back cover is opened?
I found out that it is a board failure, which probably strongly presses a board component and when I leave it open or I don't tightening the 2 most right screws, it works.
Here is the inside area affected image:
Here is the outside area without the screws:
Maybe this is the component affected, just because it is the most higher one if we consider it's height:
Resuming, I saw thousands people facing some of those issues and maybe this is the cause, a botched motherboard.
After doing that, everything works fine, including the "sleeping" feature and the Firefox with the same 30 opened tabs closes in 5 seconds.
Here is my question: Apple, what can you do for us? My MBP has failure all the time and stopped to work exactly 3 days after the warranty finished.
Everybody facing some or all those issues can try taken off those two screws, but be carefull with your warranty.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)