[olug] [OT] MacBook Air shutdown/rebooting

irish.masms irish.masms at gmail.com
Tue May 14 03:55:22 UTC 2013


Update - on my second visit to the Genius bar the MBA decided to shut 
down twice. Off to the repair facility it went!

Should hear something back in 3 days.


On 5/6/13 11:57 PM, irish.masms wrote:
> Since it is a work system, purchased in 2011 without the extended
> warranty I may be SOL with taking it to the apple store.
>
> They do have three spares - so I can swap hard drives & be up and
> running again; if the drive being encrypted does not fusker that idea.
>
> Thanks for the input folks, much appreciated.
>
>
>
> On 5/3/13 4:51 PM, Don Kauffman wrote:
>> This sounds vaguely like the problem that my mom had with her Imac.
>> IIRC, the problem had to do with the power supply, or the linkage
>> between the power supply and the rest of the computer. I took it to a
>> (supposedly) approved by apple repair shop here in Omaha a couple of
>> times and they could never reproduce the issue. Then we took it to an
>> apple store and they knew what was going on immediately.
>>
>> Not sure what  the moral of that story is but I'd second the suggestion
>> to take it to an Apple Store.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:53 -0500, Kelly Williams wrote:
>>> I have a friends macbook does the same thing to I haven't figured it out
>>> yet. But it doesn't bother them. have you talked to the apple store.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:28 PM, irishMASMS <irish.masms at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a 2011 MacBook Air that is randomly shutting down/rebooting -
>>>> usually have to close & open, disconnect and reconnect the power to get
>>>> the dang thing to power back up.
>>>>
>>>> I have reset the PRAM and SMC - no joy.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts? TIA!!
>>>>
>>>> To make this slightly related list, I like having the BSD CLI in a GUI
>>>> that does not puke when Ubuntu releases another kernel update mucking
>>>> the video drivers. ;) The MB Air platform is nice for running around the
>>>> office with, running NMap and my other tools.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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