Hi there
I have one of the first intel macbookpro's (old I know!) and it's starting to fail, but I cannot afford to replace it, so I'd like to try to prolong it's life.
It's a 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo 15 inch MacBookPro, with 2GB RAM.
A year ago I upgraded from 10.4 to 10.6 (currently using 10.6.8). I have begun to experience more problems than I can take though. I have found the computer freezing or crashing more and more frequently. I took it to the apple store and they said it was running out of RAM - it is currently maxed out at 2GB.
Sometimes when it crashes the screen switches off but the computer keeps running, sometimes it the screen goes weird, with lots of lines everywhere or a degradation of the image that was previously there, but usually it just freezes - I can move the mouse but cannot click on anything - no spinning wheel - when that happens, programmes will usually continue running in the background, so if for example, it happened when running something like compressor, it will continue the encoding, but I will need to force shutdown by holding the power button, before I can actually use the machine.
It will often happen when running memory intensive programmes like compressor, but will also happen at other times when just browsing the internet.
I think it may be something to do with over heating though, as it happens after the computer has been on for a while.
The Apple store said it was because 10.6 was pushing the limit of what the machine can handle, but they also ran some diagnostics and said they think the machine is over heating a little but that it would cost too much to fix the hardware).
If you have any suggestions regarding this I would really appreciate it a great deal. Let me know if you need any more information. I expect it will be possible to provide some sort of logs but I don't know a lot about how to do that.
Thanks kindly,
I have one of the first intel macbookpro's (old I know!) and it's starting to fail, but I cannot afford to replace it, so I'd like to try to prolong it's life.
It's a 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo 15 inch MacBookPro, with 2GB RAM.
A year ago I upgraded from 10.4 to 10.6 (currently using 10.6.8). I have begun to experience more problems than I can take though. I have found the computer freezing or crashing more and more frequently. I took it to the apple store and they said it was running out of RAM - it is currently maxed out at 2GB.
Sometimes when it crashes the screen switches off but the computer keeps running, sometimes it the screen goes weird, with lots of lines everywhere or a degradation of the image that was previously there, but usually it just freezes - I can move the mouse but cannot click on anything - no spinning wheel - when that happens, programmes will usually continue running in the background, so if for example, it happened when running something like compressor, it will continue the encoding, but I will need to force shutdown by holding the power button, before I can actually use the machine.
It will often happen when running memory intensive programmes like compressor, but will also happen at other times when just browsing the internet.
I think it may be something to do with over heating though, as it happens after the computer has been on for a while.
The Apple store said it was because 10.6 was pushing the limit of what the machine can handle, but they also ran some diagnostics and said they think the machine is over heating a little but that it would cost too much to fix the hardware).
If you have any suggestions regarding this I would really appreciate it a great deal. Let me know if you need any more information. I expect it will be possible to provide some sort of logs but I don't know a lot about how to do that.
Thanks kindly,
