Random Shutdowns MBP

[SiCbe]

Hey all,

I've got a quick question... Lately my MBP had some random shutdowns when I was running on battery power on my lap. A couple of times... I thought: no sweat... It'll go over.

But now he's doing it also when the power connector is plugged in and not running on battery. I've had to retype this new thread like 4 times cause my mbp just shuts itself down all the time... It's really getting annoying

What can I do about this? Bring it back to the apple store and they can repair it? I bought the mbp last year in november when the C2D's just came out... (not santa rose) It's a 17inch. I think it's still under the one year warranty. Or is this something they can't fix or isn't under the warranty?

Thanks!

 

[richard.mac]

well my MBP randomly shutdown while on battery power a while ago but not when on charge so your problems a little bit different than mine.

my mbp went to the repairs three times but they said we've tested it and it runs perfectly fine. they rang me up and i said when i get it back again its just gonna shut down again. so they gave me a new battery and now its fine! got the battery about 4 months ago and its still on 100% health (you can check this with istat pro). the thing is the damn repair guys probably never ran the laptop more than an hour which is when it would happen.

 

[Koodauw]

I had the same problem as you richthomas except after about 5-6 months of use with a new battery, it would start happening again. Be prepared for more battles with this.

Apple eventually just replaced the unit altogether.

 

[SiCbe]

I hope they can fix it... I'll visit the apple store on monday. I reinstalled OSX to see if that would help... Hasn't shutdown on me since but I'm not getting my hopes up

 

[mrweirdo]

I had the same thing happen to me a couple of times with my regular black macbook. the first time it was due to the firmware which was fixed easily with an update. Then the second time I had to take it into apple for repair were the Geniuses though it was caused by a faulty button on the top case after replacing the logic board, ram, battery, and power cable. So they replaced that and it was still doing it. I could tell they were running out of ideas and on the verge of getting the manager to sign off on a replacement c2d macbok for my core duo until the manager asked if they had done a disk swap. So they swaped my toshiba drive out for a seagate and sure enough it fixed it. What was strange about it the drive never showed any slowness or errors in testing but yet it was bad enough to cause a restart.

After that experience I'm of the belief that just about any component in these laptops could cause restarts if they are slightly out of spec.