The MacBook Pro is back with Apple
An update to my continuing stability issues with my MacBook Pro. This afternoon I hauled it back to the Apple Store and spent about 20 minutes with the Genius du Jour. The symptoms are the same as the ones prior to Apple replacing the hard drive, the system will usually run fine for a while when started cold but eventually a running program will hang up. It’s not the same program when this happens either, sometimes it’s even Finder operations that hang up. Once the MBP hangs up it’s hard to restart, most subsequent boots immediately get the three beeps of boot death that according to Apple indicates bad RAM.
The genius decided to hang onto the MBP for a while to bang it through a lot of diagnostics and will let me know what they find soon. I feel like one or both of the RAM sticks (one 1GB and one 2 GB) are bad and told the genius that with their own boot time diagnostics indicating bad RAM I would appreciate if they would try replacing them. We’ll see if they follow that advice. I am once again without a working Mac at home, I feel so empty.
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Empty? The 2710p should be filling the void for you. It does for me :)
You’re right, I’m on the 2710p right now and happily. :)
Shouldn’t something like the MEMTEST X86 work with the Macbook Pro since it’s running an X86 CPU and mobo? Or is the fact that the BIOS is not standard gonna hamper with that?
I always run new RAM stick through MEMTEST to rule out any future problems with them. 6 hours should be plenty. Having the unit sent away for such diagnosis seems like a waste of time when MEMTEST can tell you in few hours.
James, since you have so many toys in the house you must have a one that you could rob some RAM from? That would have told fairly quickly if it was the RAM or a mobo problem.
Hope they can fix it :)
Fail once? Thats bad luck. Fail twice or repeatedly give up , send it back and get your money back is my advice
James I would lend you one of my 2GB RAM but then my Macbook Pro will feel lonely with only 2GB, since it runs great with 4GB. LOL Hopefully they can fix it right away.
Got MS?
:-)
So much for “it just works…”
I love how when there is any issue with a mac the “it just works” slogan gets trashed. Belittling the OS for a hardware issue that is bound to happen to any hardware vendor of that size makes no sense. And for the record I am no Mac fanatic, I just get annoyed when people go out of there way to trash any platform based on personal belief not fact.
James, I hope they get your system fixed quickly.