Alex, that seems to have done some good. As I type, the silence is deafening!
Appreciate your suggestion and help. Cheers, Steven On 13/06/2010, at 7:54 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote: > > Hi Steven > > Have you tried to reset you PMU ? > > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 > > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1431 > > Please let us know what you find. > > Alex > > > On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:35, Steven Knowles wrote: > >> >> I had my 17" MacBook Pro in recently for a hard drive exchange, which I >> picked up a couple of days back. >> >> The repairer alluded to a couple of other parts which were found defective, >> and presumably fixed or replaced, still waiting for clarification on that, >> however I'm guessing something may be wrong with the Mac's Power Management >> System. The hard drive seems to run at full speed all of the time, and this >> morning, I disconnected it from the mains, shut the lid, and without using >> it further about 3 hours later the battery power had reduced from 100% to >> around 20%, then reduced further despite the lid being shut. >> >> Any suggestion on what I could do to try a quick fix? I'm loathe to go >> through the whole back up and recovery process again, which I would need to >> do if I left it with the service centre. >> >> It's running 10.6.3, all updates installed. >> >> Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
