On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:51:25 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 5:34 PM, Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My MacBook...about a year old or so, just randomly shuts down. >> Started about >> a month ago, but I don't use it more than a couple of times a month. I'm >> pretty sure it knows I hate it-- and that's why it's misbehaving. So, I >> Googled "MacBook shuts off" and there's a huge amount of people out there >> this is happening to. I'll go by an Apple store tomorrow and see if they >> have any suggestions..but thought I would check here, as many of you >> probably have MacBooks and may have gone through this. > > Hi Chipp, > > I'm surprised you didn't have this happening long ago, as it was a big > thing for MacBooks at one stage. It was an issue with the temperature > sensors. They are designed to shutdown the MacBook when the > temperature gets too high, but there was a bug in the programming so > they were shutting down randomly. At first it was thought to require a > hardware fix, but after that, a firmware solution was released. Check > for firmware updates and that should solve the problem.
Thanks, Sarah! Based on your email, I tracked down the SMC Firmware Update for my MacBook Pro (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macbookpro15inchsmcfirmwareupdate.html)... hopefully that will fix it and I can remove smcFanControl! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution