Randomly Turns Off

I've had a (minor and probably short-lived) breakthrough. I found out pretty quickly that the longer I left my MacBook to rest, the longer it would stay 'on' afterwards. 20 minutes of downtime gave about 1 minute of life.

Concerned that I should try to keep it alive long enough to back-up my files, I left it alone for 24 hours before turning it on again. It started.... I burned a CD.... I bluetoothed about 11 or 12 files to my PC.... I checked in to Yahoo.... no problems. I used it for about half an hour before closing the lid and thus putting it to sleep. Now I hardly dare wake it up for fear of another shut-down!

seems as if the tables have turned. I give it a few weeks before some pc guys, clowns the macbook in the same sort of add. Funny thing is they can actually use the macbook on the add and jsut video it shutting down, like the youtube videos. LOL funny stuff

Heres a great video of how it happens, it also does this during normal use. I plan to send this link to apple also. might help them figure out whats wrong as there giving me the "we cant reproduce the problem" line
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vThy5yF-30w&search=macbook%20problem

also you can reset all the pram, reseat memory and crap and then its good for a few mins to a few hours. then you get this video symptoms again.

Folks, y'all have run the hardware test on the Install DVD for an extended period? I mean, like, for a very long time--over night?

yes i ran the dvd before i sent it in, they had me do it over the phone. heres the moo also
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vEPzlIkBnGs&search=macbook%20moo

yes i ran the dvd before i sent it in, they had me do
it over the phone.

But, I can't get you to answer, even in the other thread...did you do an extended looping test????

The short test is almost bogus. You need an extended test. Even a repeat. Then you need to remove components, as mentioned in the other thread, one at a time, and run the test again---extended.

You have got to keep milking with the test. This can take days. Typically, you do it overnight.

anyone get a new logic board yet? my macbook has been at the apple store for 10 days now... how long does it take?

I bought my Macbook 2.0 GHz (white) back in May and it started randomly turning off near the end of June. I took it to the Apple Store for repair on July 8. It was sent to the repair depo on Jul 10. They are going to replace the logic board but it seems to be taking a really long time. I have been without a computer for almost 2 weeks now. I hope the new logic board fixes this problem. Has anyone with a logic board replacement on their Macbook had any problems?

Has anyone actually sent it in, gotten the logic board replaced, and had the random shut down problem fixed?

There are so many posts on here on how to fix the problem, or suggesting what is causing it, but the logic board seems to be the one thing most mentioned as the cause of the problem. Will someone who's had it replaced, PLEASE let us know if this did any good?

Thanks!

P.S. Yes, I am adding my Macbook to the VERY long list of ones that randomly shut down. I bought mine on June 3, from an Apple store near Dallas, Texas.

I don't know if this is the same problem - but my macbook keeps telling me to restart it randomly. in the last two days its occured about 5 times - would it be anything to do with a bunch of software updates i installed?

it seems this problem happened at the begining of july, maybe it's just because the weather is too hot. here it's 30° today and mine keeps crashing.

anyone in a cold environment ? i would have tried running my macbook in my fridge but it's too small and already full 🙂
anyone wants to try ?

my intensive log for today
Jul 17 10:34:02 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 10:41:49 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 11:23:05 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 11:38:42 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 12:16:17 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 13:16:30 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 13:28:56 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 13:36:00 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 14:24:47 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 14:38:57 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 14:46:28 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82
Jul 17 14:52:38 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: -82

I took my week 21 white MacBook 2.0 to the Apple Store for repair. It actually shut down while at the Apple Store after about a minute. It had been plugged in while off for almost 24 hours. According to the support site, the part is on order. I mentioned this thread to the Genuis guy and about the logic board. Hopefully, they replace it and problem will be solved. Will post when I get the MacBook back.

another one :
those with bootcamp and XP installed, does the macbook crash as well in windows ?

no one talked about it

i mentioned this before, though its probably too many post to go through... yes it randomly shuts off, even with bootcamp using windows... even booting off the boot disk for osx... its not software related.