Early 2011 Macbook Pro shuts off after 10 seconds unless buttons are pressed. Oh, and mashing the keyboard powers it on.

Hmm i think i have a similar problem with my brand new macbook pro

Mine is showing the shutdown window as if you pressed the button and if you don't hit cancel it dies. And when you reopen it opens as it crashed before.

It does this randomly. And sometimes very annoyingly very frequently. I tried to get help from phone but they said they don't have a listing for this problem. If I can find out something I'll share with you.

This just happen to me 😟 did you find out what was wrong? Brhoge

I have the same problem. I have a white macbook 2010, with mavericks os. I just found my mac not powering on and then I tried to run it on safe mode by holding the shift button but it will turn off seconds after I let go of the shift button. I am able to access the desktop and use it while holding the shift button the whole time. It's a bit slower than before but I figured maybe it's because of holding down shift button.

I went to the Apple Store to have them look at my mac and I was told it's a failed hard disk. I wasn't told why he was able to conclude that a failed hard disk is causing the problem, I was just told to get a replacement. But the thing is when I ran Disk Utility it says, "disk appears to be okay." So I also feel like it's possible it's not a hard disk issue because it's also the first time it happened. My mac was working perfectly fine before all this.

Do you know anything else that could cause this problem? Were you able to find out what's wrong?

Thanks.

Hello Brhoge,

This issue es pretty old....but I have exactly the same problem as you described 2 years ago.

Did you find a solution ? to this problem ?

I went to an Apple Premium reseller and he said the all top (Keyboard, cabling..) mus be changed, but this is half price of the Macbook....

my regards,.

Cesare

Hello everyone, i see this is a much more common problem than i thought, well i got the problem that my 2010 mac book shuts down unless i press some key on the keyboard and have it pressed. I opened the mac book, and found a connector, i think its the keyboard one, a square like one. i disconnected it, the computer became noisier and the keyboard and trackpad does not work, but with an external keyboard and mouse it does, works perfect. I would love to fix or replace the keyboard but it is expensive and a rare thing to get in my country, i know this does not solve the problem , but it may help someone.

if anyone wants a pic of the internal connector tell me.

cheers