Hi there,
I bought myself a 15" MBP about 2 years ago, and over the past few months it's developed a couple of weird (and very annoying) problems.
Sleep problems: It doesn't go to sleep when the lid is closed, well actually it does, but then turns wakes up (the apple lights up and the hard drive spins) then goes back to sleep and repeats this process every 20 seconds or so. The problems the same if i choose sleep manually then close the lid. This is a problem because it runs the battery down and means i can't put it in a laptop bag or anything without shutting the whole thing down for fear of a colossal overheat. Also if i manually choose sleep, but take the power cable out then in the morning it'll have run out of battery, even if i don't close the lid. But if i leave the power cable in, then it sleeps like a baby.
Shut Down problems: If i try to shut it down, but leave the power cable in it reboots automatically, if i take the power cable out then it shuts down no problem.
System Hangs: Every now and then when just casually using it, not doing anything intense, it'll go into this weird hang, where i can use the applications, but i can't switch spaces and the dock doesn't come up when I touch the bottom of the screen with my mouse. The taskbar doesn't work either. This happens about weekly i guess and varies in length from 30 seconds to 5 mintues. once it was like that for about 15 minutes so i rebooted. There doesn't seem to be any trigger or common theme or anything. Just sort of happens
Lastly Temperture: I know a lot of people mention how hot these unibody systems run, but mine's definitely running a lot hotter than it did a couple of months ago. Currently i'm playing music on iTunes and typing this message, CPU's at 6% use, memories like half full, but it's the CPU's at 80 degrees, and there's no hope of using it on my lap.
Any ideas what the hell's going on?
cheers, Joe
I bought myself a 15" MBP about 2 years ago, and over the past few months it's developed a couple of weird (and very annoying) problems.
Sleep problems: It doesn't go to sleep when the lid is closed, well actually it does, but then turns wakes up (the apple lights up and the hard drive spins) then goes back to sleep and repeats this process every 20 seconds or so. The problems the same if i choose sleep manually then close the lid. This is a problem because it runs the battery down and means i can't put it in a laptop bag or anything without shutting the whole thing down for fear of a colossal overheat. Also if i manually choose sleep, but take the power cable out then in the morning it'll have run out of battery, even if i don't close the lid. But if i leave the power cable in, then it sleeps like a baby.
Shut Down problems: If i try to shut it down, but leave the power cable in it reboots automatically, if i take the power cable out then it shuts down no problem.
System Hangs: Every now and then when just casually using it, not doing anything intense, it'll go into this weird hang, where i can use the applications, but i can't switch spaces and the dock doesn't come up when I touch the bottom of the screen with my mouse. The taskbar doesn't work either. This happens about weekly i guess and varies in length from 30 seconds to 5 mintues. once it was like that for about 15 minutes so i rebooted. There doesn't seem to be any trigger or common theme or anything. Just sort of happens
Lastly Temperture: I know a lot of people mention how hot these unibody systems run, but mine's definitely running a lot hotter than it did a couple of months ago. Currently i'm playing music on iTunes and typing this message, CPU's at 6% use, memories like half full, but it's the CPU's at 80 degrees, and there's no hope of using it on my lap.
Any ideas what the hell's going on?
cheers, Joe
curse my lack of warranty.