Hi Markus,
Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Jonas Petersson wrote:
>> I've had somewhat similar experiences with my MBP C2D. My local Apple
>> shop tried replacing various bits, but in the end they swapped the
>> whole thing. It gradually got worse, worked OK for a few weeks, then
>> the battery started complaining, but Cmd-Alt-R-P
>
> What's Cmd-Alt-R-P doing?
Reset various NVRAM settings, the most obvious one is the boot chime
sound level. When suspend2 complains that the memory size doesn't match,
this typically helps.
> The situation with my MacBook got worse to the point where I needed to
> start it up about ten times in the morning, until it worked for about
> one hour. That was enough to read emails. Then it crashed and I got enough.
Would you get as far as rEFIt? I had seemingly random shutdowns
occasionally (from seconds after power on to somewhat after logging into
X). Presumably this was due to overheating when fans got confused - it
is somewhat hard to tell when they do NOT work at all, but I was easy to
tell when they were locked at full speed.
>> Someone mentioned that the applesmc module isn't quite up to par with
>> what MacOSX does to the hardware - I guess that might be the reason.
>
> The reason for not showing real values for battery capacity, rate and
> voltage, you mean. Not the reason for the sudden shutdowns, is that right?
Possibly. Once the ACPI stuff got confused I guess just about anything
can han happen. I get the feeling that a confused SMC can do similar
things - I tried putting a heartbeat on the keyboard backlight and it
froze my box solid after a few cycles...
> I'll try to install MacOSX and reproduce the error there, as soon as I
> have all the data on my desktop computer.
Well, lucky for me, MacOSX was also confused about various bits, such as
the battery - I have a feeling this made a full swap easier to get to.
Good luck / Jonas
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