In a short while I will be heading back to the Apple Store to pick up my MacBook Pro. I got a call from the Genius Bar late yesterday informing me that my MBP is ready to be picked up after repair. It is with a bit of trepidation that I pick it up today as it doesn’t seem they repaired anything at all. The genius said they ran diagnostics non-stop for the three days they had the MBP and it only hung up once on them. When they rebooted it he admitted he got the three beeps of RAM death from the hardware so he swapped the two RAM cards into the other slot. I informed him that I’ve brought the MBP in for the same symptoms, frequent hang-ups followed by difficulty rebooting due to the three beeps and that the first time I brought it in the genius swapped the two cards into the other slot too. Since that didn’t fix it he ran hard drive diagnostics which flagged the disk as being bad and they replaced the hard drive. That didn’t fix the problem and hence the second trip to the repair center with the MBP. I asked the genius yesterday why he thought that swapping the RAM cards into the other slot would work this time when it didn’t work the first time. Long pause. He then said that after he swapped them this time it didn’t hang up a single time. I’m not sure how confident I should be at that statement since it only hung up once on them in three days when it’s been hanging up on me frequently.
Anyway, I’ll pick it up today and then bang on it to see how it fares.
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