Randomly Turns Off

Oh man i gets better, after reading tons of posts, mine did the same as many other. I jsut lost total picture with my macbook while on phone with a macbook specialist. As i was talking to her i told her of this post and that others had said it would go in these stages.
first: macbook with shutoff for no reason, it will do this a few times at random. Then some time will go by and it will start doing it again, then it will not turn on, will just flash the white led when you press power and then shut its self of. MIne did this nine times ina row. I then pluged it into the wall and and it finally turned on. The tech told me to try run the disk. When i rebooted it turned off for good. Now it does not even turn on, only the back light works on the display and everything else is dead. oh the disk drive makes a bit of noise too. hey guys if you have had the firs t sympotoms of this prepair for major problems. pull al the info you need for the next week of your macbook or macbook pro as you will be sending it in asap. Trust me on this guys its hapening on tons of board and happens in the same order of events. well my dhl box ets here tomorrow so ill ship it out monday. Oh the tech said its more than likly the logic board. Im guessing this based on the born on date or week date. you can see this by clicking the os version under the apple menu and about this mac. Just search the net for it as there all the same. I think its like week 22 or something.

also i didnot do the quicktime update and others are having the same problem to the T with the version of osx before the recent update. so I dont think its that.

I agree that it's NOT likely software related. Mine does it and I'm at 10.4.6. I did all the other updates the first day I had the machine (June 4) and the shutoff problem started June 20. C'mon Apple that's only 16 days after having a brand new machine!

I may be grasping at straws but...

Is anybody here *NOT* using VirtureDesktops?

I have a reasonably small hunch that the refrence to the # 82 has something to do VirtueDesktops. Cause thats the number cited in another VirtueDesktops error...

Long shot i know, but still worth an ask..

nope i do not use virtual desktops. Only thing im upset with is that yeah its a new product gonna have some issues. but having to send the thing n a wait a week is kind lame when i picked a apple for businees because of its reliability strength. Now if i get like afree memory upgrade for my down time thats cool, but i doupt ill get anything. oh well

its not software. i did several clean installs, without adding any more programs, and it randomly shuts off. then i add bootcamp, load windows, and even windows randomly shuts off. even running off of the boot cd, before an install, it randomly cuts off... its either the firmware, (which i doubt), or the logic board. i'm pretty sure its the logic board... taking my computer to the apple store tomorrow.

Can you let us know exactly where this #82 VirtueDesktops error is documented? I'd like to learn more about it in hopes that I can gain some insight into what exactly a "Previous Shutdown Cause: -82" means. I'm not running VirtueDesktops but I am running Parallels.

Yeah I'm headed to my Apple Store tomorrow too.

When starting my computer, console has the message "Could not access task for pid 82. You probably need to add user to procmod group
Installation of Virtue's dock extension has failed. Some of Virtue's features will not work as expected."

I did a google search for "Could not access task for pid 82" and found other errors relating to VirtureDesktops

Probably means nothing though.. Im just trying anything..

In system.log after shutdown:

(88: VirtueDesktops)tfp: failed on 82:

By the way, 82 is the process id or something of the dock, which VirtueDesktops injects code into

post you results with the apple store guys. Im just sending mine in as i dont want to drive a hour just to have to leave it there and then have to pick it up later.

Something thats really interesting to me is that some many posts have poped up on the net within the last week. Just weird, thats its all happening at the same time for the most part

I agree, but i did find posts on other forums from weeks ago..

Either way, everyone here is right; I re-installed OSX and it still happens.. It happend during setup a few times too, running off the disk

Im going in to the apple store in 3 hours.

My BlackBook just died tonight as well. I just got it less than a week ago at Best Buy. It was open box, I should have known better but the cheapscate in me spoke louder. Lesson learned.

I was installing software and suddenly the screen went dark, the DVD drive spun up once or twice but then all I could hear was the moo of the fans turning on and off, on and off. I managed to boot it a couple of times after that, but every time it would die after about 5 minutes. Then it just sat there, pressing the power button would flash the screen, the power light would start blinking, but nothing else would happen.

I still had a CD in there too, and couldn't eject it, none of the methods worked. Finally I came across this post on a blog: http://silvermac.com/blog/2006/dvd-stuck-in-macbook-pro/ It worked like a charm and the CD ejected. However, the MacBook still won't start.

I've currently got the drive hooked up to an external SATA casing I have, and I'm imaging the contents onto my other external drive (amazing how much stuff you can accumulate on a drive in a week). Once that's done I'm popping it back in and heading to Best Buy to see what they're going to do for me (don't have high hopes).

I must say, this is very disappointing.

iBook G4 / DeadBook (Black) Mac OS X (10.4.7)