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!!!! I have a 2010 MBA 11" 128Gb 4Gb RAM running Lion. About 1 month ago whilst attempting to upload a video to youtube (which was going to take 3 hours) about half way through I came back into the room to find my display had a grey screen and the whole laptop was boiling to touch. I switched it off manually and then switched it back on immediately and it started up no problem.
I attempted to upload the video 10 minutes later but again the same thing happened after about 10 minutes. Again the laptop was hot especially the base. I therefore left the upload and performed it on my imac with no problem.
I use the MBA only very occasionally, mostly for surfing the web, Lightroom, Photoshop and iphoto without any overheating and grey screen issues. Anyway the same thing happened again yesterday so I immediately trawled the forums for any help and others experiences.
From what I have read so far I have not really seen a remedy for this. I am using Chrome, something which has been mentioned however others, who have had overheating issues, have had issues when using Safari or Firefox so I have eliminated that one. I am also using Lion rather than Mountain Lion so that one is eliminated. I have read about resetting the SMS and PRAM however I have not tried that yet.
I guess I am really asking others who have experienced this problem or know of it, if there is an ultimate remedy, or if it a motherboard, fan replacement issue. It is out of warranty and I don't want to go down the road of taking it to the local Apple Reseller to be charged stupid money for them to have a look at it.
Any ideas much appreciated, thanks
!!!! I have a 2010 MBA 11" 128Gb 4Gb RAM running Lion. About 1 month ago whilst attempting to upload a video to youtube (which was going to take 3 hours) about half way through I came back into the room to find my display had a grey screen and the whole laptop was boiling to touch. I switched it off manually and then switched it back on immediately and it started up no problem.I attempted to upload the video 10 minutes later but again the same thing happened after about 10 minutes. Again the laptop was hot especially the base. I therefore left the upload and performed it on my imac with no problem.
I use the MBA only very occasionally, mostly for surfing the web, Lightroom, Photoshop and iphoto without any overheating and grey screen issues. Anyway the same thing happened again yesterday so I immediately trawled the forums for any help and others experiences.
From what I have read so far I have not really seen a remedy for this. I am using Chrome, something which has been mentioned however others, who have had overheating issues, have had issues when using Safari or Firefox so I have eliminated that one. I am also using Lion rather than Mountain Lion so that one is eliminated. I have read about resetting the SMS and PRAM however I have not tried that yet.
I guess I am really asking others who have experienced this problem or know of it, if there is an ultimate remedy, or if it a motherboard, fan replacement issue. It is out of warranty and I don't want to go down the road of taking it to the local Apple Reseller to be charged stupid money for them to have a look at it.
Any ideas much appreciated, thanks