Forced Restart

[fr4c]

So I'm sitting in my economics lecture typing notes and all of a sudden my MBP starts to dim horizontally from the top of the screen to the bottom and the restart prompt appears. Anyone know what caused this?

 

[72930]

Did it look like this? If so its a kernel panic, and that could mean hardware problems:

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The Macrumors Guides have some info on them here...good luck

 

[sbluetruck]

if it's not a kernel panic or a hardware problem, was the battery low?

i had a friend who's laptop did that when his (defective) battery was under 2% because it would not supply enough power for the hard drive etc.