Well last night was the first time I noticed this problem with my 2.0 White MacBook.
I came home from school, logged on, and opened GarageBand. After about 5 minutes of use, it shut down. I thought maybe it overloaded or something, so I didn't think much of it.
Now here's when I became somewhat worried. When I pressed the power button, the light in the front lit up and the drives revved up and then power went off again. This happened about 5 times. I let it sit for a couple of mins, turned the power on and made it to the log on screen, and then it shut down again.
Took the battery out let it sit again, and this time it started up without any problems. Now that I was on again, I opened Garageband to get back to work, and about a minute in it powered off again.
I called AppleCare but didn't have any luck, just told me to try the PMU. Tried that, got the odd revved drives and crash thing still. Once I got booted up again I was on for about 45 minutes, but had a random crash while browsing MacRumors. Later that night, I had another random shut down using GarageBand again, and had two this morning.
At first I thought it was just Garageband, but twice it happened without Garageband opened. I'm getting kinda worried since I don't have a external to backup on. Apple said I can bring it in and try to explain and they'll try to fix it. Not sure how you could pinpoint something like this.
There's no kernal panic warnings either, just shuts down. Sometimes when it does the revved up and die thing, the only way to get it to turn on is holding the power button for a couple seconds until I get the flashing light in the front and the beep.
Any ideas?
Jake
I came home from school, logged on, and opened GarageBand. After about 5 minutes of use, it shut down. I thought maybe it overloaded or something, so I didn't think much of it.
Now here's when I became somewhat worried. When I pressed the power button, the light in the front lit up and the drives revved up and then power went off again. This happened about 5 times. I let it sit for a couple of mins, turned the power on and made it to the log on screen, and then it shut down again.
Took the battery out let it sit again, and this time it started up without any problems. Now that I was on again, I opened Garageband to get back to work, and about a minute in it powered off again.
I called AppleCare but didn't have any luck, just told me to try the PMU. Tried that, got the odd revved drives and crash thing still. Once I got booted up again I was on for about 45 minutes, but had a random crash while browsing MacRumors. Later that night, I had another random shut down using GarageBand again, and had two this morning.
At first I thought it was just Garageband, but twice it happened without Garageband opened. I'm getting kinda worried since I don't have a external to backup on. Apple said I can bring it in and try to explain and they'll try to fix it. Not sure how you could pinpoint something like this.
There's no kernal panic warnings either, just shuts down. Sometimes when it does the revved up and die thing, the only way to get it to turn on is holding the power button for a couple seconds until I get the flashing light in the front and the beep.
Any ideas?
Jake
