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narshe

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Nov 22, 2011
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When I unplug my Macbook Pro, after a couple minutes it will just shut off. It doesn't go to sleep, it doesn't shut down, it just does a hardware power kill. There are no errors in Windows event log, no information at all. When restarting, I get the screen saying windows didn't shut down correctly.

The MBP wouldn't start with the power plug removed. I reset the SMC and the PRAM. The MBP then could start up with the plug removed, but when it starts to boot Windows it just shuts off. If I boot Windows and then remove the plug, the same thing happens and it shuts off after a couple minutes. It does not shut off when booted into Mac OS.

I've seen a lot of info about this happening on the OSX side, but nothing about it happening only on Windows. Resetting the PRAM and SMC fixed any errors on the OSX side.

Anyone know how I can fix this? I'm not even sure how to trouble shoot this since it's the hardware killing it, and there is nothing in Windows that says something went wrong.

Specs:
Macbook Pro 2009 era
Windows 7
Bootcamp 3.3 on Windows
Bootcamp 2.x on OSX
 
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