I'm beginning to hate my macbook.

[elbirth]

I'm mostly angry at the situation because I'm being forced to use my PC.

I hate going back to it.

I hear ya... My MacBook Pro has been out of my hands since Friday and it's my only Mac. So I've been using Windows since then, and it's killing me. I never remember how sluggish Windows feels in general usage in comparison to OS X, as well as how much more efficient I am using OS X with Quicksilver.

 

[NicP]

Add mine and my girlfriends computers to the list of the "randomly shutting down" macbooks. My superdrive also burns coasters and fails at reading some disks, and my girlfriends have the discoloration issue.

 

[TEG]

I have had video problems, exactly like your describing with my PowerBook. The culprit the first time was the Logic Board. The second time, however, it was the RAM I had installed.

I've also seen in on other machines, once it was the VRAM dying, and another time it was a corrupt OS. Try booting off of a CD, like the hardware test CD and see if it still does it.

TEG

 

[miniConvert]

Man I love apple computers. And to think, this is my first one.

My first one was DOA. Well that's not strictly true, it got gradually worse over 48 hours and then completely packed up.

Replacement was brilliant, though 'Mac's 4 eva!'

 

[StartTday]

Its official... I now hate my macbook.
After getting my macbook back from having the logic board replaced from the problem that started this thread, things were working great. I no longer loved my macbook, but rather, just accepted it as another consumer electronic. But I was just happy that it worked.

Then it happened, this morning I turned on my macbook and the same ***** problem occured. Veritcal colored lines. Does apple get their kicks on selling paper weights?

I'm going to have to take it in, again, third damn time.

This is my first apple product and most likely will never buy another one. It was such a great machine until it started wigging out.
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EDIT: I just did a PRAM reset and it works now. My computer still sucks though, haha...

 

[aristobrat]

Then it happened, this morning I turned on my macbook and the same ***** problem occured. Veritcal colored lines.

I wouldn't take it in as it's thought to be a software issue. Going back up to what iMack said a few post above, ...

FWIW, the random shutdown issue appears to be heat sink related, so if yours shuts off again even though they've replaced the logic board, that may be why.

I spoke with Apple today and was given new instructions on a fix for the "colored vertical lines at startup" issue.

1. Shut the computer off.

2. Restart holding the Option-Command-R-P keys down, wait for three "bongs" and release keys. MacBook should boot normal with no lines.

3. Next, open your System Preferences control panel and open "Displays" in there. Now change your current resolution setting to some other resolution and then switch it back to your current setting. Close preferences and reboot to test. It should keep rebooting normal without the lines.