MBP (2007) boots 1 in 5 times

[strawbale]

My 2007 MBP (http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...k-pro-core-2-duo-2.4-17-santa-rosa-specs.html) has great difficulty booting, but once booted works fine. Restarting is no problem.

Any idea/advice very welcome! (not very technical myself...)

 

[Samuelsan2001]

It may need a new hard drive, have failing RAM or battery problems or even have a failing logic board it is impossible to tell from this description but at 9 years old it's not worth fixing either.

 

[strawbale]

Thanks for that. Wasn't thinking on spending money on it, so for the moment try to keep it plugged in all the time and not shut down - so far, so good...

 

[strawbale]

Just out of curiosity I downloaded the trial version of DriveDx and ran it on my 2007 MBP:

Power On : 20,181 hrs

Load Cycle Count: 2,091,437

So, about to pack in?

 

[ApolloBoy]

Yeahhh you should consider spending some money on an SSD if you want to keep it going, and do a backup if you haven't already.

 

[TonyK]

Two Christmases back, I upgraded a 17" MBP without issue. Used a Crucial SSD (500GB) and upped the unit to 6GB of memory. It is not hard and there are YouTube videos to help with disassembly/reassembly. It was much faster after that.